The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has fixed August 1 for hearing a bail plea filed by jailed Haji Mohammad Salim in a case for amassing illegal wealth.

Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chamber judge of the Appellate Division, today scraped the plea and sent it to the apex court full bench for the hearing.

Haji Salim filed an appeal against the High Court (HC) verdict that upheld a lower court judgement sentencing him to 10-year imprisonment in a graft case, on May 24. He also filed the bail plea on that day.

Dhaka Special Judge Court-7 on May 22 sent the lawmaker to jail as he surrendered before the court following a High Court order in the case lodged over amassing illegal wealth.

The High Court on March 9, 2021, upheld the lower court judgement that sentenced lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim to 10-year imprisonment in the case lodged over amassing illegal wealth.

The court, however, had acquitted the lawmaker of the charge of concealing information in his wealth statement, for which Selim was sentenced to three-year imprisonment.

The High Court had ordered the accused to surrender before the lower court concerned within 30-day of getting the copy of the judgement.

The trial court on April 27, 2008, convicted Haji Salim and sentenced him to total 13 years' imprisonment under two sections in the case, which was filed by the ACC on October 24, 2007.

The accused appealed against the judgement with the High Court on October 25, 2009. The High Court on January 2, 2011, acquitted him of the corruption case, making the anti-graft body to appeal against the High Court verdict.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on January 12, 2015, scrapped the High Court verdict and ordered to hold the hearing afresh.

BDST: 1905 HRS, JUN 06, 2022
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