ACC withdraws case against Mirza Abbas over plot allocation

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has withdrawn a case against BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and two others filed over allegations of irregularities in plot allocation.

ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam filed a petition to withdraw the case on Thursday, which Judge Robiul Alam of Dhaka's Special Judge Court-4 granted after a hearing.

The other two accused in the case are former BNP MP Ali Asgar Lobi and government official Mahfuzul Islam. Mirza Abbas’s lawyer, Mahi Uddin Chowdhury, confirmed this information.

According to the case document, in 2006, while serving as minister of public works, Mirza Abbas allocated 19.44 kathas of land in the Tejgaon Industrial Area to a company named Pacific Chemicals.

The land allocation was reportedly done through irregularities in collusion with Ali Asgar Lobi and Mahfuzul Islam.

Following the complaint, the then ACC deputy director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed a case with Shahbagh police station on July 15, 2007.

The court subsequently ordered the framing of charges against the accused on February 11 of the following year, initiating the trial.