Judge withdrawn after rejecting Awami Legue leader’s bail

The district and sessions judge in Pirojpur, Abdul Mannan, was withdrawn on Tuesday after he had rejected bail pleas of former Awami League MP AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in three graft cases.

Pirojpur public prosecutor Munsur Uddin Hawlader told New Age that judge Abdul Mannan was stand released on charges of corruption after he rejected  bails of former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in three cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

He said that Pirojpur district unit Awami League president Awal and his wife appeared before the court following an order of High Court and the court sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers in three corruption cases.

Later, at about 4:00pm, the court of joint district and sessions judge Nahid Nasrin, who has been given the responsibility to discharge as acting district and sessions judge of Pirojpur, granted bail to Awal and his wife after they moved an application for reviewing the bail rejection order passed by judge Abdul Mannan, the Munsur Uddin said.

The public prosecutor said that Awal and Laila in their review petitions said that they were physically ill.

When asked about the incident, law minister Anisul Haq told New Age that he was not aware about the matter and he was trying to know the issue.

‘I will make comment over the issue after I get details on the matter,’ he said in the evening.

Witnesses said that the supporters of Awal went out demonstrations on the court premises after the judge rejected the bail petition.

On December 30, 2019, ACC deputy director Ali Akbar filed the cases with the commission’s integrated district office in Barishal.

According to one case statement, the former MP took lease of a piece khas land using fake documents and built a three-storied building on it. The building was later rented out to Pirojpur Rural Electricity Cooperative at the rate of Tk 17,250 per month since October 1, 2017 for about three years.

Earlier, on January 7, Awal and his wife took interim bail from the High Court. Later on, the Appellate Division carried on the HC’s order following the appeal of ACC for cancelling the bail.

Awal was an MP from Pirojpur-1 for two consecutive terms in 2008 and 2014.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net