The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

The government is going to set up five more special courts in different parts of the country to accelerate the disposal of the graft cases filed against the alleged corrupt persons.

Five more special courts would be set up very soon and the Law Ministry has already completed the process, ACC Secretary Mokhles- ur Rahman told reporters on Monday during its regular briefing.

He said the existing law of the commission is being amended to give the enquiry and investigation of a case to a same officer to quicken the probe into the graft cases.

The amendment, he said, is now under process and the increased number of courts would bring momentum in disposing the graft cases as per schedule before the next general elections.

The ACC secretary said the government would decide where the new special courts would be set up according to the requirements. So far 15 cases were tried in lower courts out of which nine are at the appeal stage in the High Court, he said.

Mokhles-ur Rahman said the commission also asked its law wing to take necessary steps to file writ petitions against 526 cases and 967 revision cases in the higher courts lodged against public servants ranging from union parishad (UP) members to former ministers.