The High Court yesterday blasted the Anti-Corruption Commission and the police for their failure to arrest the 15 accused of a case filed for the embezzlement of Tk 176 crore from AB Bank.
“We have directed more than six months back to arrest all the accused of the Tk 176 crore embezzlement case. But why they were not arrested? We want to know the reasons,” the HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo said during the hearing of a bail petition filed by accused Md Shahidul Islam and Abdur Rahim.
The bench ordered the ACC, inspector general of police (IGP), additional IGP of immigration to submit reports on what steps they have taken to arrest the accused.
The court also fixed June 26 for further hearing on the bail petition of Shahidul and Rahim.
Earlier in the day, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told the court that Ershad Ali, an accused, has been handed over to the police when he came to the HC for bail in the case.
Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik informed the HC bench that four accused of the case, including Ershad, are in custody.
Lawyer Touhidul Islam appeared for Shahidul and Rahim.
On December 7 last year, the HC directed the ACC and police to arrest 14 former officials of AB Bank Ltd and a businessman in seven days in connection with the Tk 176 crore embezzlement case and also asked the authorities concerned of the government to…
