PK Halder: ACC delayed travel ban to help him flee Says High Court Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent The High Court has blamed the Anti-Corruption Commission for the failure to arrest PK Halder before he managed to flee the country. It said the ACC helped Halder escape by making a delay of 13 hours in issuing a travel ban on him. "By doing the delay, you have given him [Halder] the scope to leave the country " an HC bench told ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan during a hearing yesterday. Proshanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, is accused of embezzling and laundering a huge amount of public money from some non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). He fled the country on October 23, 2019.