HC accepts ACC appeal on Bodi's acquittal
The High Court yesterday accepted for hearing an appeal that challenged a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi of a charge in a corruption case.
The HC will fix a date for hearing the appeal after the records of the case from the lower court concerned are produced before it, said advocate Khurshid Alam Khan, lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Commission, which filed the appeal.
A Dhaka court on November 2 sentenced Bodi, a lawmaker from Cox's Bazar constituency, to three years' imprisonment for concealing and providing false statements to the ACC in March 2014 but it acquitted him of the charge of amassing wealth illegally.
On November 16, the HC granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in the case clearing the way of his walk out of jail.
The ACC on November 17 filed the appeal where the commission prayed to the HC to cancel the acquittal of Bodi, saying that the lower court did not properly considered the charge of accumulating illegal wealth against Bodi.
Bodi recently got released from jail on bail in the case.
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