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High Court Division
(Special Original Jurisdiction)
Md Anwarul Haque J
Md Akram Hossain
Chowdhury J

Md Zaved Khan ... Petitioner
vs
Anti Corruption Commission and others......
................ Respondents.
Order 
March 22nd, 2011   
Money Laundering Protirodh Act (VIII of 2009)
Section 14 
Section 14 empowers the Adalat to freeze and attach any amount lying in the Bank even during the course of investigation. . ..... (4)
Constitution of Bangladesh, 1972 Article·l02(2)(ii)
Money Laundering Protirodh Act (VIIl of 2009) .
Sections 2Kha, 15 and 16
The order passed by the Adalat as defined in Section 2Kha of the Ain any aggrieved person may seek relief under section 15 but without availing such forum and thereafter provision laid down in Section 16 the petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction which is not, at all, maintainable since there is a efficacious relief provided by law.
...... (5)
Md Hedayet Ullah, Advocate-For the Petitioner
Md Khurshid Alam Khan, Advocate-For the ACC.
Order
Md Anwarul Haque J: Let the supplementary affidavit shall part of the main petition.
2. One Md. Zayed Khan has filed this application under Article 102(2)(a)(ii) of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh challenging the legality of ·the order dated 6-7-2010 in Permission Petition No.76 of 2010 passed by the learned Senior Special Judge-in-Charge, Dhaka where he has seized the account of Unipay 2U Bangladesh Ltd. lying in the City Bank Ltd., National Commerce and Credit Bank Ltd., BRAC Bank Ltd., Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd. and Mercantile Bank Ltd.
3. Mr. Md. Hedayet Ullah the learned advocate appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the petitioner being a subscriber has suffered much by the impugned order because on such order he has been seized to receive any amount from Unipay 2U Bangladesh Ltd. where he has already invested. In support of his such submission he has annexed a printed downloaded copy from internet Annexure-A and Al to the supplementary affidavit though it does not disclose his name in any way. The petitioner has to seek relief in the form of releasing the account of Unipay 2U Bangladesh Ltd. as an interested person, contemplated in Section 15 of the gvwbjÛvwis cÖwZ‡iva AvBb, 2009 .
4. On such submission we have gone through the application meticulously and the respective provision of law incorporating in the gvwbjÛvwis cÖwZ‡iva AvBb, 2009 where Section 14 empowers the Adalat to freeze and attach any amount lying in the Bank even during the course of investigation. Against such order of attachment of freeze of account any interested person may come to seek relief under section 15 which runs as follows:

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5. The above provision of law clearly speaks that against the order passed by the Adalat as defined in Section 2Kha of the said Ain, any aggrieved person may seek relief under section 15 but without availing such forum and thereafter provision laid down in Section 16 the petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction which is not, at all, maintainable since there is a efficacious relief provided by law referred to above.
6. So we are not ready to entertain the writ petition. Hence the application is summarily rejected.