Khandaker Mosharraf released on bail

BNP’s senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain was released from jail this afternoon three days after the Supreme Court upheld his bail order in a money laundering case.

"Khandaker Mosharraf walked out of the jail around 4:15pm," Subrata Kumar Pala, Jail Super of Part -1 of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail, told The Daily Star.

The family members and relatives and the party’s local leaders welcomed the BNP leader at the Jail gate, reports our Gazipur correspondent. 

Law enforcers arrested Mosharraf, a Standing Committee member if the party, from his Gulshan residence on March 12, 2014 in the case.

On January 10, the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that granted bail to the BNP leader.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, ordered the lower court concerned to finish the trial proceeding of the case in three months.

In an additional condition, the SC said the trial court would cancel the bail if the accused sought adjournment during the case proceeding, court sources said.

The ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station on February 6, 2014 accusing the former health minister of amassing over Tk 9.53 crore between 2001 and 2006 and depositing that into a bank account in the UK.