BNP leader Habib gets five-month jail

The High Court on Wednesday sentenced BNP leader and former lawmaker Habibur Rahman Habib to five month's jail in connection with a contempt of court charge, filed against him for making a derogatory comment about the judge who sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two corruption cases. The HC also fined him Tk 2000.

The HC bench of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Md Bashir Ullah passed the decision after hearing on the contempt charge.

The HC said, “Habibur Rahman has given a wrong message to the countrymen. He has humiliated the judiciary”.

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