Lutfozzaman Babar, former state minister for home affairs under the BNP-Jamaat alliance government, walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj yesterday after spending 17 years in prison.
The High Court yesterday acquitted former BNP state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and five others, who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in the Arms Case filed after the recovery of 10 truck loads of arms in Chattogram in 2004.
The High Court yesterday acquitted former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and five others, who were sentenced to death by the trial court, in a case filed over the sensational 10-truck arms haul in Chattogram.
Former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar yesterday sought acquittal in the 10-truck arms haul case in Chattogram.
The High Court yesterday acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar and all the others convicted in two cases over the grisly August 21, 2004 grenade attack.
Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal today granted bail to former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar in four cases filed for the murder of former Finance Minister Shah AMS Kibria and the murder attempt of former minister Suranjit Sen Gupta
It was the cabinet's oath-taking night after the 2001 parliamentary elections. The phone rang in the newsroom of The Daily Star. On the other end of the phone was the quivering voice of a man who, in his Dhaka University student days, was an infamous “armed cadre” of a political party.
The High Court clears the way for trial court to run the trial proceedings against BNP leader Tarique Rahman and three others in a case filed on charge of bribery.
Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar has been taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for medical checkup.
That humid August afternoon changed Bangladesh politics, perhaps forever. An Awami League rally was in progress at the Bangabandhu Avenue and it was around 5.15pm at the fag end of the rally when Sheikh Hasina, then the opposition leader, started her speech from the top of an open truck.
