Former MP Rana's bail upheld

Staff Correspondent: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld the bail of former member of parliament Amanur Rahman Khan Rana.

A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after hearing an appeal filed by the state on Tuesday.

Earlier, on March 25, Chamber Court Justice Hasan Foez Siddique stayed the bail, and also sent the state a petition for a hearing, to a full court bench of the Appellate Division.

The High Court had granted bail to Rana on March 14 in a murder case.

Rana surrendered to the Tangail additional district and session's judge court on September 18, 2016 ending his 22-month fugitive run in a freedom fighter murder case.

The Awami League leader went into "hiding" after he was accused of killing freedom fighter and member of the Awami League district unit Faruk Ahmed.
On January 18, 2013, the Faruk was shot dead in front of his residence in the district town.

Later, Faruk's wife Nahar Ahmed filed a case in this connection.


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