The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

HRC Group's Chairman Saeed Hossain Chowdhury and GATCO directors Syed Galib Ahmed and Syed Tanvir Ahmed yesterday got interim bail from the High Court in separate cases.

The Court yesterday also granted interim bail to Giridhari Lal Modi, owner of Uttara Group, Dr Abdullah M Taher, former Jamaat MP, and former BNP lawmaker and Partex Group Chairman MA Hashem.

Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader and Justice Mohammad Imdadul Haque Azad accepted the bail prayers of Saeed Hossain Chowdhury, Syed Galib Ahmed and Syed Tanvir Ahmed.

Granting interim bail orders following separate petitions, the same court stayed for two months the proceedings of graft cases against Modi, Taher and Hashem.

The bench also issued rule upon the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to explain why the cases filed against the three should not be quashed.

The same HC bench granted interim bail for four months to Saeed Hossain Chowdhury of HRC group in connection with a case for violation of the Emergency Power Rules. Saeed, elder brother of Awami League leader Saber Hossain Chowdhury, was arrested by the joint forces on July 18.

The bench, responding to a petition, also issued rule upon the government to explain why the petitioner should not be granted regular bail.

Meanwhile, the bench stayed the proceedings of the graft cases against Quamrunnahar, wife of detained former state minister Fazlur Rahman Patal, and Shamsun Nahar, wife of detained former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Ahmed. Both of them were made co-accused in the cases along with their husbands. It issued separate rules upon the ACC to explain why the cases should not be quashed.