HC to hear ACC appeal against MP Bodi’s acquital

The High Court today accepted an appeal challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi of a charge in a corruption case against him.

The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan accepted the appeal filed by the Anti Corruption Commission after hearing the prayer from its lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.

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Advocate Khurshid Alam told The Daily Star that the HC will fix a date for hearing the appeal after the records of the case from the lower court concerned will be produced before it (HC).

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.

On November 16, the HC granted bail to the AL lawmaker for six months in the case clearing the way of his walk out of jail.

The ACC on November 17 filed the appeal with the HC challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Bodi of the charge in the case.

In the appeal, the commission prayed to the HC to cancel Bodi's acquittal order, saying that the lower court has not properly considered the charge of accumulating illegal wealth against Bodi.

Bodi recently got released from jail on bail in the case.