Sadeq Hossain Khoka

The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail till July 16 to Dhaka city's mayor, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, in the case filed against him for amassing and hiding illegal assets in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.

The High Court bench of Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader and Justice Md Emdadul Haque Azad also stayed the proceedings of the case, now pending with the Dhaka metropolitan senior special judges' court, till July 16.

The court asked the ACC to explain why the case should not be quashed for its failure to submit the charge-sheet to the court in 60 working days after the filing of the case.

The court passed the orders after hearing separate petitions filed by Sadeque, also the immediate past president of the Dhaka city unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.