Nazmul Huda gets bail in bribery case

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to former minister Nazmul Huda in a graft case, reports UNB.

A four-member bench led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order accepting his leave-to-appeal petition.

On 8 November last year, the High Court commuted former communications minister Nazmul Huda's seven years' imprisonment to four years in the graft case and ordered him to surrender before the court.

He surrendered before the court on 6 January and the court sent him to jail.

Later, he filed a leave-to appeal petition and another petition seeking bail.

Lawyers AF Hasan Arif, Monsurul Haque Chowdhury and Sigma Huda stood for Nazmul Huda and Khushid Alam Khan for the Anti-Corruption Commission.

On 27 August, 2007, a Special Judge's Court sentenced the former BNP minister to seven years' imprisonment while his wife to three years' imprisonment in the case filed by the ACC.

However, the High Court on 20 March, 2011 acquitted them from the charge and later the Appellate Division on 1 December, 2014 scrapped the HC verdict and asked for hearing the petition again.

ACC deputy director Shariful Islam filed the case against Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda on 21 March, 2007 on charge of taking Tk 24 million as bribe from a person named Mir Jaher Hossain.