Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda, who now leads a political outfit styled the Trinamool BNP, has sued former chief justice SK Sinha for graft and misuse of power.
Huda, a lawyer, filed the case with the Shahbagh police station in Dhaka on Monday.
The case has been forwarded to the Anti-Corruption Commission for investigation, Shahbagh police OC Abul Hasan told Bangla Tribune.
According to the case documents, Huda has brought bribery charges against Sinha, who stepped down as the chief justice last year.
A former vice-chairman of BNP, Huda was expelled from the party in 2010 for going against the party position after Khaleda Zia had left her home of 28 years in Dhaka Cantonment after losing a court battle.
He then floated a political party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF), which later drove him out too.
Afterwards, in May 2014, Huda formed another party called the National Alliance (NA) but was met with no response.
Finally, in November 2015, he announced a new party, the ‘Trinamool BNP’ (grassroots BNP), saying the Khaleda Zia-led BNP was a ‘failed party’.
Huda's party was among the nine political outfits which held a meeting in July this year with the ruling Awami League-led coalition in a bid to join them.
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