Babar sent to jail on surrender

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A Dhaka court sent former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar to jail Thursday after his surrender in an arms case in which he has already been sentenced to 17 years in prison, reports bdnews24.com.

The Supreme Court denied to extend the bail of the BNP leader Tuesday and ordered him to surrender to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka.

The High Court handed him six months' bail in the case on October 6, 2008.

The government appealed against the order on October 23, on which the Supreme Court reduced Babar's bail in the case to three months and ordered him to surrender to the trial court.

The BNP leader was convicted in October 2007 in the case filed with Gulshan Police Station on June 3 last year.