The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case under the condition that he would not leave the country.
The court also asked him to surrender his passport to the lower court.
The bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty gave the order in response to a petition filed by Mosharraf challenging the rejection of his bail by the lower court.
Defence lawyer Nitai Roy in the bail petition said his client had been behind bars for one year and four months and was suffering from a range of health problems.
“With the bail order from the High Court, there is now no bar to his [Mosharraf] release from prison,” said another counsel Khandaker Maruf Hossain. “He will not be allowed to leave the country without permission from the court and will not be able to make transactions in the account that has been frozen,” he said.
But Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Md Khurshid Alam Khan said they would challenge the bail order.
