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The High Court has suspended the legal proceedings against one of the three accused in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) regarding the alleged illegal acquisition of a flat in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. The accused include Tulip Siddiq, niece of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former UK City Minister. On July 8, 2025, a High Court division bench issued a rule and a stay order following a petition. This information was confirmed on Sunday by the ACC and the petitioner’s lawyer.The case, filed on April 15, 2025, by the ACC’s Dhaka Integrated District Office, accuses Tulip Siddiq and two others—former Assistant Legal Adviser of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Shah Md. Khasruzzaman and former Assistant Legal Adviser-1 Sardar Mosharraf Hossain—of illegally acquiring a flat from Eastern Housing Limited in Gulshan. The case was initiated by ACC Assistant Director Monirul Islam. According to the ACC’s lawyer, Shah Md. Khasruzzaman filed a petition in the High Court to quash the case proceedings. Following a hearing on July 8, a High Court division bench, led by Justice Mohammad Ali, issued a rule and stayed the proceedings for three months specifically in Khasruzzaman’s case. Senior lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun, representing the petitioner, stated that the petition argued that no RAJUK officials were named as accused and that a lawyer’s opinion does not constitute a decision. The ACC was represented in court by lawyer M A Aziz Khan, who informed Prothom Alo that the ACC plans to appeal the High Court’s order in the Appellate Division.
