The High Court has granted six months bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a graft case filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC).
An HC virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Ahmed Sohel passed the order on Sunday.
Lawyer Md Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the ACC, Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik for the state and Advocate Nahid Sultana (Juthi) for the accused Sohel Rana.
On August 24, Sohel Rana sought bail from the High Court in the money laundering case. He submitted a petition to the HC through his lawyer, seeking bail in the case.
Earlier, Sohel was arrested on October 27, 2018, with a bag on Bijoy Express train while he was on the way to his hometown in Mymensingh from Chattogram.
Searching Sohel's bag, police recovered fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) worth around 2.50 crore taka, 44.43 lakh taka in cash and 12 bottles of Phensedyl.
Police later filed two separate cases with Bhairab Railway Police Station against Sohel under the Money Laundering Act and Narcotics Control Act.
nh/teb
