MiG-29 Case

Staff Correspondent

A Dhaka court Tuesday exempted former army chief Mustafizur Rahman from apearing in court hearings of the MiG-29 case.

Judge Golam Mortuza Mojumder's special court set July 16 for the next hearing in the case.
 
The court also continued hearing Sheikh Hasina's petition to cancel the case against her involving the controversial purchase of MiG-29 warplanes during her term as prime minister.
 
As the court sat Tuesday morning, Hasina's lawyer barrister Shafique Ahmed read out sections of an earlier High Court ruling regarding the case that was filed by the now defunct Bureau of Anticorruption in 2001 against seven people.
 
A charge sheet was submitted on Jan 29, 2003, against the seven accused including Hasina, but the High Court stayed the case proceedings following an appeal by Hasina the same year.
 
Hasina and the other accused are charged with causing the state Tk 700 crore in losses by purchasing the eight MiG-29 war planes.
 
Advocate Sahara Khatun was present in court on Tuesday on Hasina's behalf as the former prime minister has been exempted from personally appearing in court while she seeks medical treatment overseas.
 
Six other accused in the case, including Mustafizur Rahman, were present in court.
 
The other accused in the case are former air chief Jamaluddin Ahmed, former defence secretary Syed Yusuf Hossain, former joint secretary of the defence ministry Mohammad Hossain Sherniyabat, retd air commodore Mirza Akhter Maruf and Unique Group proprietor Noor Ali.

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