Dhaka, June 3 (bdnews24.com)—Former minister and Jatiya Party leader Anwar Hossain Manju, sentenced to total of 32 years in four cases, was freed on bail at BIRDEM Cardiac Hospital in the capital on Wednesday.
Dhaka Central Jail official Bazlur Rashid said prison guards were removed from his hospital cabin just before 6pm, and family and friends were being allowed to visit Manju who was undergoing heart treatment.
Manju, chairman of one of the major JP factions, and facing four convictions against him, surrendered to a trial court and was sent to jail on May 6.
He secured bail from the High Court on May 28 in the last of four cases in which he had been convicted.
The case charged him with receiving Tk 77 lakh in bribes in 2007. He was sentenced to seven years in June 2008.
On May 19 this year, he received bail in another bribery case dating from 2007, involving Tk 1 crore, for which he also received a seven-year sentence in May 2008.
He also secured bail on May 19 in an illegal wealth case in which he was sentenced to 13 years last August. The Anticorruption Commission filed the case against Manju and his wife Tasmima Hossain in October 2007.
Manju secured bail on May 26 against a conviction for illegal possession of 22 bottles of alcohol, in which he received a five-year sentence.
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