Graft Case: Order on Mir Nasir’s bail petition today

Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will deliver its order today  on a bail petition of BNP leader and former state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday fixed the date for passing the order after concluding hearing on the matter.

Lawyers AJ Mohammad Ali and Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal appeared for Mir Nasir while Khurshid Alam Khan argued for the Anti-Corruption Commission during virtual hearing on the petition.

On November 8,  a Dhaka court sent Mir Nasir to jail on his surrender in the case.

He recently filed the petition, seeking bail in the case on health ground.

On October 27, his son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin was sent to jail after his surrender in the same case in which he was sentenced to three years' in jail.

On November 19 last year, the High Court upheld a lower court verdict that sentenced Mir Nasir to 13 years and his son to three years in jail in the case.

The court also ordered them to surrender before the trial court within three months after the court received the certified copy of its verdict.