Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order that granted bail for six months to Awami League MP Abdur Rahman Bodi in a case filed for concealing information about his wealth.
ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan said that they had prayed for cancellation of Bodi’s bail in the petition.
The HC on Wednesday granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in the case.
On November 2, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 sentenced Bodi to three years’ in prison for concealing and deliberately providing false wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission in March 2014. But it acquitted him of the charge of amassing wealth illegally in the case.
The MP from Cox’s Bazar was also fined Tk 10 lakh, in default whereof he would serve behind the jail three months more.
The SC bench of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division, fixed Sunday for hearing the plea following a time-petition submitted by Bodi’s lawyer.
Meanwhile The ACC on Thursday filed another appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League MP Abdur Rahman Bodi of the charge in this corruption case. The commission filed the appeal with the High Court seeking cancellation of the acquittal.
ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan said that the lower court had not properly considered the charge of accumulating illegal wealth against Bodi. The High Court is yet to fix any date for hearing the appeal.
According to the case statement, Abdur Rahman Badi concealed information about his wealth amounting to Tk 108.6 million amassed from unknown sources.
On May 7 last year, the Anti-Corruption Commission submitted charge-sheet in the case. The trial began after charges were framed against him on September 8, 2015. The argument in the case concluded on October 19.
