HC scraps Babar's 8 years' jail sentence
Senior Staff Reporter Published: 23 October 2024, 04:28 PM
| Updated: 23 October 2024, 04:36 PM
Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar. File Photo
The High Court has acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar from charges and scrapped his eight years’ jail sentence in a graft case.
The single bench of Justice Kamrul Hossain Molla delivered the verdict on Wednesday (October 23) after a hearing in this regard.
Earlier on October 12, 2021, Dhaka Special Judges Court-7 sentenced Babar to eight years in jail in the case filed for amassing Tk 7.5 crore illegally and hiding information about it.
On January 13, 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission, ACC, filed the case against him.
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