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Published: 28 Apr 2021 09:29 PM BdST
Updated: 28 Apr 2021 09:29 PM BdST
Erfan Selim, son of MP Haji Mohammad Selim, has been released from jail after he secured bail in all cases against him. );
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Erfan, who was sacked as the councillor of a ward under Dhaka South City Corporation after “assaulting” a navy officer, was arrested on various charges on Oct 25 last year.
Subhas Ghose, superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail in Kerainganj, said they released Erfan on Wednesday afternoon.
Erfan’s aide Mohiuddin Ahmed Belal said Erfan first visited the grave of his mother Gulshan Ara, who died while he was in jail.
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The Supreme Court has upheld the bail granted to Erfan Selim, the son of MP Haji Selim, in a case over ‘assaulting’ a navy officer in Dhanmondi. );
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The state’s petition to appeal the bail set by the High Court was scrapped by a six-member virtual appellate bench led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Sunday.
Additional Attorney General Sheikh Md Morshed and Deputy Attorney General Biswajit Debnath represented the state at the hearing, while lawyers Baset Mazumder and Sayeed Ahmed Raza represented Erfan.
“There is nothing to bar him from being released from jail as the Supreme Court has rejected the state’s appeal,” Raza said after the hearing.
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HC upholds Salim’s 10-year jail for graft
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The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court s verdict that convicted and sentenced Haji Md Salim to 10 years in prison in a corruption case filed by the ACC during the military-backed caretaker government in 2007.
It also upheld a fine of Tk 10 lakh imposed on the Awami League lawmaker from Dhaka-7 for amassing wealth worth Tk 14.65 crore beyond known sources of his income.
The HC, however, scrapped another part of the lower court s judgement delivered in 2008 which handed three years imprisonment to Salim for concealing information about his wealth to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
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