Moudud freed on HC bail
After over 19-month imprisonment, former law minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed was released yesterday from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) prison cell on a High Court (HC) bail.
Meanwhile, the jail authorities suspended the division status of another detained former BNP state minister Lutfozzaman Babar for using mobile phone inside the BSMMU cabin violating the jail code.
Jail sources said Moudud was freed from the BSMMU prison cell at about 5:15pm.
After emerging from the prison cell, the former law minister said, "Fake cases were filed against me and I was arrested only to be harassed."
He demanded immediate lifting of emergency and cancellation of the section 91 (2) of the Representation of People Order (RPO).
At the time of release, several hundred party men thronged the BSMMU to welcome him.
Moudud has been facing five graft cases, including one on Niko. The High Court granted him bail in all the cases.
On April 13 last year, the army-led joint forces arrested him from his Gulshan residence and seized 16 bottles of foreign liquors and 32 cans of beer along with 220 pieces of saree allegedly from government relief fund.
Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen Zakir Hassan told The Daily Star that the division status of Lutfozzaman Babar was cancelled for seven days from yesterday for violating the jail code.
The jail authorities caught Babar while talking on a cell phone at BSMMU cabin and seized the phone.
Later, he was moved to a prison cell at around 8:00pm on Sunday as punishment.
Earlier, he was caught with mobile phone for two times.
Arrested on April 28 of last year, Babar was awarded 17 years' imprisonment in an arms case.
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