Graft case: ACC challenges AL MP Bodi’s acquittal

The Anti Corruption Commission today filed an appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi of the charge in a corruption case.

The commission filed the appeal with the High Court seeking cancellation of the acquittal.

A Dhaka Court on November 2 convicted Bodi, a lawmaker from Cox's Bazar constituency, and sentenced him to three years' imprisonment for concealing and providing false statement to the ACC in March 2014 but it acquitted him of the charge of amassing wealth illegally in the case.

After filing the appeal, ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that the lower court has not properly considered the charge of accumulating illegal wealth against Bodi.

The High Court is yet to fix any date for hearing the appeal. Yesterday the HC granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in the case clearing the way of his walk out of jail.