Four years on, Md Sharif Uddin, a deputy assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), has been reinstated with his seniority and arrears of pay and allowances after a court verdict and the end of the legal process.
The ACC formally announced the decision on Tuesday (10 November).
Sharif Uddin applied for reinstatement on 25 October following the court’s verdict. At the commission’s meeting No. 13/2026 on 5 November, his application was reviewed and the earlier removal order withdrawn. He was reinstated by an order issued from the head office.
Under the rules, he will get his previous seniority, all arrears of pay and allowances and other benefits due to him. The decision takes effect from the date of the order. The last legal obstacle to his return was removed on 29 October, when the chamber court of the Appellate Division granted the ACC’s application to withdraw its leave to appeal against the High Court verdict.
On 16 February 2022, Sharif Uddin, then deputy assistant director at the ACC’s Patuakhali office, was removed from service under rule 54(2) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (Employees) Rules, 2008. Before that, while posted at the Chattogram office, he had drawn wide attention for investigating irregularities in land acquisition for government projects and recommending cases against influential people, and he had filed a general diary after receiving death threats.
Sharif Uddin challenged his removal with a writ petition in the High Court. After lengthy hearings, on 9 July 2024 the High Court declared the dismissal order to have been made without lawful authority, struck it down and ordered his reinstatement with seniority and arrears. The ACC filed a leave to appeal against the verdict but later decided not to pursue it. It was dismissed as “not to proceed” on 15 October, and the legal process ended when the withdrawal application was granted on 29 October.
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