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Jailed lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim on Tuesday filed an appeal against the High Court verdict that upheld a lower court judgement sentencing him to 10-year imprisonment in a graft case.
Salim's lawyer Advocate Mohammad Sayeed Ahmed Raza filed the appeal with the concerned wing of the Appellate Division, also pleading for bail for the lawmaker in the case.
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 the lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim to 10-year imprisonment in the case lodged over amassing illegal wealth.
The court, however, had acquitted him 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.
