Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday accepted the appeal petition for hearing filed by former BNP lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque Kamal challenging the lower court order that convicted and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The HC also stayed the lower court’s fine of Tk 2.10 crore on Salimul Haque in the same case.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and
Justice Shahidul Karim passed the order during the hearing of the appeal.
The court will hold the hearing of the appeal later on.
Advocate Palash Chandra Roy, lawyer for Salimul, told that Salimul will file a petition with the HC seeking bail in the case.
On Tuesday, Salimul, now in jail, submitted the appeal to the concerned office of the HC through his lawyer praying to it (HC) to acquit him of the corruption charge and to scrap the trial court verdict against him.
On February 8, Special Judge’s Court-5 in Dhaka sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to five years’ rigorous imprisonment after it had found her and five others including Salimul guilty in the case.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had filed the case with Ramna Police Station in July 2008, accusing the six of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore that came from a foreign bank as grants for orphans.
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday accepted the appeal petition for hearing filed by former BNP lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque Kamal challenging the lower court order that convicted and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The HC also stayed the lower court’s fine of Tk 2.10 crore on Salimul Haque in the same case.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and
Justice Shahidul Karim passed the order during the hearing of the appeal.
The court will hold the hearing of the appeal later on.
Advocate Palash Chandra Roy, lawyer for Salimul, told that Salimul will file a petition with the HC seeking bail in the case.
On Tuesday, Salimul, now in jail, submitted the appeal to the concerned office of the HC through his lawyer praying to it (HC) to acquit him of the corruption charge and to scrap the trial court verdict against him.
On February 8, Special Judge’s Court-5 in Dhaka sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to five years’ rigorous imprisonment after it had found her and five others including Salimul guilty in the case.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had filed the case with Ramna Police Station in July 2008, accusing the six of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore that came from a foreign bank as grants for orphans.
