The High Court on Tuesday rejected three separate petitions filed by six former officials of the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) in Dinajpur challenging the trial court order that, on November 25 last year, framed charges against them in a corruption case.
The HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus Zaman and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan passed the order considering that those were not presented properly.
Now there is no bar for the lower court concerned to run the trial proceedings of the corruption case that was filed over misappropriation of Tk 2.43 billion through disappearing of over 1.43 tons of coal from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd, said Khurshid Alam Khan, a counsel for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The accused in the petitions sought exemption from the charges of the case.
The accused petitioners include former BCMCL managing directors Md Abdul Aziz Khan, SM Nurul Aurangazeb, Khurshidul Hasan, Md Kamaruzzaman, and Md Aminuzzaman, and its former official Abu Taher Md Nur-uz-Zaman Chowdhury.
Lawyers Rokanuddin Mahmud and Mustafizur Rahman Khan appeared for the petitioners.
Md Anisur Rahman, manager (admin) of the coal mining company, filed the case accusing 19 people with Parbatipur Police Station in Dinajpur on July 24, 2018, in connection with the disappearance of the coal.
According to the case statement, the accused officials were behind the missing 1.43 lakh tonnes of coal. The estimated market price of the coal is over Tk 2.43 billion which the officials allegedly misappropriated between January 2006 and July 19, 2018.
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