Haji Salim challenges 10-year jail sentence
Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim yesterday filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that upheld his conviction and 10 years' jail sentence in a corruption case.
Salim submitted around 1,200-page appeal through his lawyer Sayeed Ahmed Raza, in which he also sought bail. The appeal will be placed before the chamber judge on May 29 for its hearing, the lawyer told The Daily Star.
Citing the appeal, he said there is no documents or evidence in support of the charge brought against Haji Salim of accumulating assets beyond known source of income.
Besides, the lawmaker had been on bail earlier and he "never misused his bail", the lawyer said, adding that his client is now seriously ill and he might be granted bail now on health ground.
Haji Salim was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Monday for treatment, a day after he was sent to jail.
Salim, who was sentenced for 10 years in the graft case filed in 2008, surrendered before a Dhaka court on May 22 and sought bail.
Rejecting his bail petition, the court sent him to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.
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