Online Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) can sack its employees without showing any reason, according to the Appellate Division’s verdict on Thursday. The Appellate Division today overturned a High Court order that had cancelled a section of the ACC. Now, the anti-graft body’s provision to dismiss employees without show cause will be upheld.

An eight-member bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique delivered the verdict after granting an appeal filed by the ACC challenging the HC judgement. The ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan said former ACC deputy assistant director Sharif Uddin cannot get back his job following the court judgement.

On February 16, 2021, the ACC sacked Sharif under Section 54(2). Advocate Mia Mohammad Ishtiaq had filed a writ petition on behalf of Sharif in March 2022. The court today rejected the writ.