The High Court has granted bail to the suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir who had been earlier convicted by a trial court in a case filed over the transaction of Tk 4.0 million as bribe.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Rais Uddin granted him bail for six months on Thursday after hearing a bail petition filed by Enamul Basir.
Lawyer Faruque Alamgir Chowdhury appeared in the court hearing on behalf of the former ACC official, while lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan represented the ACC.
Later Mr Faruque Alamgir said, “The court asked both the parties of the case to take preparation for hearing on the appeal petition filed by Enamul Basir against his conviction in the case. The court at the same time granted him bail for six months.”
Now there is no legal bar to Enamul Basir's release as there is no other case against him, said the lawyer.
A Dhaka Court on February 23 this year sentenced Enamul Basir and Mizanur Rahman, suspended Deputy Inspector General of Police, to eight and three years in jail respectively in the Tk 4.0 million bribery case.
Judge of the Special Judge's Court-4 in Dhaka, Shaikh Nazmul Alam, handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts at a packed courtroom.
Enamul Basir was sentenced to three years for taking Tk 4.0 million as bribe from Mizan and five years for laundering the amount. But the sentence will be run concurrently, the judge said. He was also fined Tk 8.0 million, in default of which he will have to serve six months more in jail.
The High Court on April 13 this year admitted the appeal petition filed by Enamul Basir and stayed the fine imposed on him by the trial court.
A High Court bench on August 23 this year granted him bail in the case. However, the High Court bench recalled the bail order the following day. Later a fresh bail petition was submitted to another HC bench.
Meanwhile, the High Court granted bail to DIG Mizanur, another convicted of the case, in last April.
The ACC official was accused in a case for receiving bribes of Tk 4.0 million from the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Bangladesh Police Mizanur Rahman.
Earlier on July 16, 2019, Md Fanafillah filed the case against the two government officials with the ACC’s Dhaka District Coordination Office-1 in Dhaka.
