The High Court on questioned a lower court's order, that asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to sieze properties and freeze bank accounts of former lawmaker and Pirojpur Awami League President AKM Awal and his wife Laila Parveen in two graft cases.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir issued the rules after hearing separate petitions filed by the couple.
The court issued rules asking the ACC to show cause in four weeks why the lower court's order should not be declared illegal.
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On January 17, Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka asked the ACC to freeze bank accounts and seize properties of Awal, who was elected from Awami League from the Pirojpur-1 constituency in the 2008 and 2014 national polls, and Laila in the two corruption cases.
On May 25, the court rejected two separate appeals filed by them, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam said.
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On September 29 last year, the ACC filed two separate cases with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka where Awal was sued for amassing illegal wealth over Tk33.27 crore, and Laila Tk10.98 crore.
Also, on December 30, 2019, the ACC filed three cases against Awal and one against Laila for grabbing a piece of government land in Pirojpur Sadar upazila and setting up a two-story building on it.