AKMA Awal, wife get HC bail in graft cases
The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail for four weeks to former member of parliament from Pirojpur AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parveen in two separate corruption cases.
The HC also asked Awal and Parveen to surrender to the trial court concerned after four weeks in connection with the cases.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Ahmed Sohel came up with the order after hearing two separate petitions recently filed by Awal and Parveen seeking anticipatory bail in the cases.
Awal and Parveen appeared before the HC bench during the hearing.
Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that it can be said after going through the full text of HC order on which ground it granted bail to Awal and Parveen.
ACC will file an appeal with the Supreme Court against the HC order, Khurshid said.
The ACC filed a case with its Dhaka office on September 30 against Awal, who was elected lawmaker from Pirojpur-1 in 2008 and 2014, on charge of illegally amassing Tk 33 crore.
The same day, the commission filed another case against Laila over illegally amassing Tk 10.98 crore.
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