The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has granted bail to former BNP minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a graft case.
A four-member bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed the order accepting his leave to appeal petition on Monday.
On November 8 last year, the High Court commuted former communications minister Nazmul Huda's seven years' imprisonment sentence to four years, in the graft case, and ordered him to surrender before the court.
Nazmul, complying with the court's order, surrendered on January 6 and was sent to jail.
Later, he filed a leave to appeal petition, and another petition seeking bail.
Lawyers A F Hasan Arif, Monsurul Haque Chowdhury and Advocate Sigma Huda represented Nazmul Huda; while Khushid Alam Khan stood for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Previously, on March 21, 2007, ACC Deputy Director Shariful Islam filed the case against Barrister Nazmul Huda and his wife Sigma Huda; on charges of taking Tk2.40 crore as a bribe from a person named Mir Jaher Hossain.
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On August 27, 2007, a Special Judge's Court sentenced the former BNP minister to seven years' imprisonment, while his wife received three years' imprisonment in a case filed by the ACC. It also fined Nazmul Tk2.5 crore.
However, the High Court on March 20, 2011, acquitted them of the charges.
Later, on December 1, 2014, the Appellate Division scrapped the High Court’s verdict and asked to hear the petition again.
