Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted bail to MP Abdur Rahman Bodi for six months in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for concealing information about his wealth.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ‘no order’ on a petition filed by the ACC challenging the High Court order that granted bail.
After the order, Bodi’s bail will remain in force, said Bodi’s lawyer Nasreen Siddiqa Lina to the reporters. So, there is no legal bar to release Bodi as per the today’s SC order, she said.
On November 16, the HC granted bail to Bodi for six months in the corruption case.
Earlier, On November 2, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 sentenced Bodi to three years’ in prison for concealing and deliberately submitting false wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission in March 2014.
The MP from Cox’s Bazar was also fined Tk 10 lakh, in default, to suffer three months more in jail.
According to the case statement, Abdur Rahman Bodi 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.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted bail to MP Abdur Rahman Bodi for six months in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for concealing information about his wealth.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ‘no order’ on a petition filed by the ACC challenging the High Court order that granted bail.
After the order, Bodi’s bail will remain in force, said Bodi’s lawyer Nasreen Siddiqa Lina to the reporters. So, there is no legal bar to release Bodi as per the today’s SC order, she said.
On November 16, the HC granted bail to Bodi for six months in the corruption case.
Earlier, On November 2, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 sentenced Bodi to three years’ in prison for concealing and deliberately submitting false wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission in March 2014.
The MP from Cox’s Bazar was also fined Tk 10 lakh, in default, to suffer three months more in jail.
According to the case statement, Abdur Rahman Bodi 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.
