Convicted ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi was released from jail yesterday night, hours after the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that had granted him six months interim bail in the graft case. The Cox’s Bazar-4 constituency MP was released from Kashimpur Central Jail -2 around 8:45 pm, said jail sources.
Earlier in the day, the chamber judge of the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that had granted six-month bail to Badi in a graft case, clearing the way for his release from jail. In response to a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission seeking a stay on the HC order, the Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed a no order.
Advocate Nashreen Siddiqa Lina, counsel for Badi, told reporters that her client’s (Badi) bail order is in force following the apex court order. So, there is no bar to release the Cox’s Bazar-4 constituency lawmaker from jail following the Supreme Court order, she added.
The HC had on November 17 granted bail for six months to Badi, who was jailed for three years in a graft case by a trial court. It also stayed the Tk 10 lakh fined imposed on him by the trial court for hiding information about his wealth.
fter hearing a bail petition filed by Badi, the bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus granted his bail just two weeks after his conviction for ‘concealing and providing false’ wealth statement to the ACC.
Earlier, on November 2, a Dhaka court had sentenced him

to three years in jail and fined Tk 10 lakh for hiding information about his wealth to ACC. The court, however, acquitted Badi of the charge of amassing wealth illegally.
The ACC filed the case with Ramna police station in Dhaka on August 21, 2014, accusing the legislator of amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement. Badi was arrested and put in jail for three weeks in October 2014. He later secured bail from the High Court. On May 7 last year, the ACC’s investigating officer, deputy director Manjil Morshed, submitted the charge-sheet against Badi in the court that said Badi had accumulated more than Tk. 6.3 crore disproportionate to the known sources of his income, and that he had concealed information from the ACC about assets worth more than Tk. 3.9 crore.