HC\\\'s acquittal verdict for Huda, Sigma scrapped

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has cancelled the acquittal order issued by the High Court in favour of former communications minister Barrister Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda in a bribe case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order on Monday afternoon. The Appellate Division’s ruling means that the case will again go to trial at the High Court, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam. The ACC filed the corruption case against Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma on March 21, 2007, with Dhanmondi Police Station and the former BNP minister was sentenced to five years in prison and fined Tk 25 million by Special Judges Court on August 16, 2007. Sigma Huda was also given a three year sentence. The couple was acquitted by the High Court on March 20, 2011, following an appeal they filed, according to private TV channels.