SC upholds Mosharraf's bail

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that granted bail to BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on some conditions in a money laundering case.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, ordered the lower court concerned to finish the trial proceeding of the case in three months.

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In an additional condition, the SC said the trial court would cancel the bail if the accused sought adjournment during the case proceeding, court sources said.

Mosharraf will get released from jail if he is not arrested in any other case, Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.

Mosharraf was arrested from his Gulshan residence on March 12, 2014 in the case. He has been in jail since then as the trial court denied him bail.

The ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station on February 6, 2014 accusing the former health minister of amassing over Tk 9.53 crore between 2001 and 2006 and depositing that into a bank account in the UK.

On August 19, the HC granted him bail on conditions that he has to deposit his passport to the lower court concerned and cannot go abroad without its permission, and he cannot withdraw the money till disposal of the case.