Dhaka, March 19 -- The High Court on Tuesday directed Awami League lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy to hand over a house at Gulshan in Dhaka, which he has allegedly occupied illegally, to the government, terming it an abandoned property.

Salam Murshedy has been ordered to hand over the property through the secretary at the Housing and Public Works Ministry within three months of receiving the HC verdict.

The court observed that Murshedy occupied an abandoned government house on Road no 104, holding no 29, in the Gulshan Residential Area, without it being released by the court of settlement.

The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ebadot Hossain delivered the verdict after holding a hearing on a writ petition seek...