TDS Desk

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, after accepting an appeal filed by the BNP leader.

Dhaka Special Judge Court-7 on 12 October 2021, convicted Babar and sentenced him to an eight-year jail term in a case filed with the Ramna Police Station on 13 January 2008 for amassing an illegal wealth of around Tk7.05 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 Tk10 thousand and punished him with three-month in additional jail-term in default.

After that Lutfozzaman Babar filed an appeal against his conviction.