A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered officials concerned to appoint an Executive Magistrate to open the locks of four flats at Gulshan owned by the wife and daughters of former IGP Benazir Ahmed.
Judge Mohammed Ash-Shams Joglul Hossain passed the order accepting a petition filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Director Md Monjur Morshed.
ACC Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir confirmed the matter to the Daily Observer on Sunday evening.
The ACC official said in his petition that as per earlier courts order Monjur Morshed along with some ACC officials went to visit the flats and talked to the buildings receptionist Meherab Hossain.
The receptionist informed them that the flat owners did not live there and he did not know their whereabouts. The owners even took the keys of the flats with them.
There is a matter of utility charges, especially service charges, which are supposed to be paid every month.
The flats need to be accessible for assessment of the utility charges, said the ACC official in his petition.
The application also added an executive magistrate should be appointed as an administrator to enter the flats in absence of the flat owners.
On June 6, the court ordered the appointment of an official receiver for those attached properties of the Benazir family, apart from four Gulshan flats.
Earlier on May 23, the court had ordered the freezing of 33 bank accounts and attaching properties bought under a total of 83 deeds of Benazir and his family.
On May 26, the court again ordered to attach properties bought under 119 deeds, four 100 per cent owned companies, and 15 partially owned companies. The court also ordered the freezing of four BO accounts.
Amid the investigation into the corruption allegations, Benazir and his family members left the country on May 4.
