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Nazmul Huda secures bail in corruption case

January 22, 2019 00:00:00


The Supreme Court (SC) granted on Monday bail to former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a graft case, report agencies.

A four-member bench led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order accepting his leave-to-appeal petition.

On November 08 last year, the HC commuted former Communications Minister Nazmul Huda's seven years' imprisonment to four years in the graft case and ordered him to surrender before the court.

He surrendered before the court on January 06 and the court sent him to jail.

Later, he filed a leave-to-appeal petition and another petition seeking bail.

Lawyers A F Hasan Arif, Monsurul Haque Chowdhury and Advocate Sigma Huda stood for Nazmul Huda and Khushid Alam Khan for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

On August 27, 2007, a Special Judge's Court sentenced the former BNP minister to seven years' imprisonment while his wife to three years' imprisonment in the case filed by the ACC. It also fined Nazmul Huda Tk 25 million.

However, the HC on March 20, 2011 acquitted them from the charge and later the Appellate Division on December 01, 2014 scrapped the HC verdict and asked for hearing the petition again.

ACC Deputy Director Shariful Islam filed the the corruption case with Dhanmondi thana against Barrister Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda on March 21, 2007 on charge of taking Tk 24 million as bribe from a person named Mir Jaher Hossain.


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