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The High Court (HC) on Wednesday acquitted former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and cancelled his eight-year jail sentence in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
A High Court division bench of Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the judgement, allowing a criminal appeal filed by the BNP leader, BSS reports.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-7 on October 12, 2021, convicted Babar and sentenced him to eight-year jail in the case filed with the Ramna Police Station on January 13, 2008, for amassing an illegal wealth of around Tk 7.05 crore.
Babar was sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment under section 26 (2) and five years' imprisonment under section 27 (1) of the Anti-corruption Commission Act, 2004. The court also fined him Tk 10 thousand and to suffer another three months behind bars in default. The court said both the sentences of jail would run concurrently.
After that Lutfozzaman Babar filed an appeal against his conviction.