Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail for one-year bail to Barrister AFM Fakhrul Islam, convicted in the case filed in connection with the leakage of the draft verdict in the war crimes tribunal case against former BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.A High Court bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim passed the order after hearing on the bail petition of Fakhrul Islam moved by senior advocate Joynul Abedin.
Bangladesh Cyber Tribunal on September 15, last year, sentenced Barrister Fakhrul to a ten-year imprisonment and fined him Taka 10 lakh.
The court sentenced Chowdhury’s manager KM Mahbubul Hasan, junior lawyer Mehedi Hasan, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) staff Faruk Hossain and Nayan Ali to seven years’ imprisonment and fined them Taka 10 thousand each.
AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud, then Registrar of the ICT, filed a general diary with Shahbagh Police Station on October 2, 2013, over leaking a part of the draft of the verdict. Later, on October 4 of that year, Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Fazlur Rahman lodged a case with the same police station in this regard.
It was later disclosed that SQ Chowdhury’s personal staff and his lawyers leaked the part of the draft, bribing two tribunal staff.
On August 28, 2014, DB submitted the charge sheet of the case against seven, including Salauddin’s wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury and son Hummam Quader Chowhury. – Special Correspondent
