Top government officials, including former power and energy state minister Nasrul Hamid, reportedly colluded with several corporate entities in Bangladesh and India to secure controversial power deals under an indemnity law during the past Awami League regime.
the national committee, commissioned to review the controversial power deals of the AL era, reportedly gathered sufficient circumstantial evidence to prosecute the corporate companies and their collaborators in an international arbitration court.
the national committee comprising five members was formed in September last year, about three months before the controversial indemnity law-Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2010- was finally repealed 14 years after its promulgation.
after the repeal, the incumbent government, which replaced the past AL government in August last year following a student-led uprising, cancelled all solar projects approved under the now-defunct law but retained all fossil fuel-based projects