The High Court on Monday granted bail to convicted industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye for six months
The bench of Justice Md Shawkat Hossain granted their bail after hearing a revision petition, according to Ragib's lawyer Abdul Halim Kafi, reports UNB.
Deputy Attorney General Jahirul Haque had stood for the state, while Ragib and Hye were represented by Kafi, advocate AM Amin Uddin, Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Barrister Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury.
Earlier, on August 9, Special District and Sessions Judge Dilip Kumar Bhoumik had upheld the verdict of Sylhet's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate after hearing the appeal of Ragib and his son.
The special court also ordered the duo to surrender before the lower court concerned before September 17.
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On September 12, a Sylhet court had rejected the bail petition of the duo and sent them to jail for a second time in the case.
Prior to that, on February 2, another Sylhet court had sent Ragib and Hye to jail for 14 years in the case.
The court also fined them Tk10,000 each and they will have to serve three more months in jail if they fail to pay.
The two, however, moved the Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court challenging the judgment on February 16. In the petition, they also sought bail but the court rejected their plea on May 24.
Later, they filed an appeal with the High Court for bail.
On August 25, 1999, the then parliamentary standing committee on land ministry had found that the Tarapur Tea Estate grabbed a vast area of an endowment property and set up several establishments on the land illegally.
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Later, the subcommittee of the parliamentary watchdog recommended legal action against the illegal occupants.
SM Abdul Hye, the then land commissioner of Sylhet Sadar, had filed two cases against six people, including Ragib, at the Kotwali police station on September 27, 2005.
One of the cases was filed for grabbing endowment property of Tarapur Tea Estate after forging Land Ministry documents against Ragib and Hye, and another for misappropriating Tk1,000 crore of the government.
