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Graft case against SK Sinha, probe report Oct 26
S. K. Sinha
A Dhaka court Monday fixed October 26 to submit the probe report in a graft case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Judge (in-charge) Faisal Atiq Bin Kader of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court of Dhaka set the new date as investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission could not submit the report on Monday.
The ACC on March 31 of last year,filed the case under the sections 4 (2) and 4 (3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act and section 5 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Act.
According to the case documents, Ananta Kumar Sinha, brother of SK Sinha bought a house at a cost of about Taka 2.40 crore. Both of them have been accused of illegally earning and laundering $280,000 Ananta Kumar’s bank account in the United States when SK Sinha was the Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
With that money, SK Sinha’s younger brother Narendra Kumar Sinha boutht a bought the building in New Jersey area of US.
As the ACC could not identify any legal source of the money paid for the home, it believes that the money was earned illegally or laundered from Bangladesh. - Court Correspondent