Dhaka, May 28 (bdnews24.com)—Former communications minister and a Jatiya Party faction chairman Anwar Hossain Manju on Thursday secured bail from the High Court in a bribery case, the last of cases.
He had been sentenced to seven years in jail in the case.
The bench of Justice M A Wahhab Mia and Justice Mohammed Marziul Haque granted him bail order on his appeal.
Manju's lawyer Ahsanul Karim said with the bail there remained no legal bar to the former minister stepping out of jail after he had secured bail in other cases.
He surrendered before the trial court on May 6 in the illegal wealth corruption case and was sent him to jail.
Manju was sentenced to a total 32 years in prison in four cases.
The case was filed against Manju with Shahbagh Police Station on charge of taking Tk 77 lakh as bribe on July 25, 2007.
In the case, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on June 10, 2008. Another case was filed against him with Dhanmondi Police Station on the allegation of taking Tk 1 crore in bribe on July 25, 2007.
In that case he was sentenced to a further seven years in jail on May 28, 2008.
He got bail in two cases in High Court on May 19.
On Aug 26 last year, Dhaka special judge's court sentenced Manju to 13 years in jail, Tk 10 lakh in fines and another year in prison for non-payment.
Anticorruption Commission assistant director Sheikh Fayez Alam filed the case against Manju and his wife Tasmima Hossain on Oct 7, 2007 with Dhanmandi Police Station.
Manju got bail on May 26 in the 22-bottle alcohol case at Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge's court. A Dhaka court sentenced him to five years in prison in the case.
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