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Suspended jailer Sohel Rana gets bail in money-laundering case
DHAKA, June 16, 2020 (BSS) – The High Court today granted conditional bail to suspended jailer Sohel Rana Biswas in a case lodged under money-laundering prevention act.
A High Court virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder granted the disgraced jailer bail till filing of police report in the case and on condition of surrendering his passport.
Supreme Court lawyers Nahid Sultana Joty and Shakila Rowshan moved Rana’s bail plea, while Anti-Corruption Commission counsel Md Khurshid Alam Khan opposed the plea. Deputy attorney general AKM Amin Uddin Manik appeared for the state.
Police on October 27, 2018, arrested Rana, the then jailer of Chattogram Prison, from Mymensingh bound Bijoy Express train and recovered Taka 44.43 lakh in cash, FDR documents of Taka 2.5 crore, three bank cheques of Taka 1.30 crore, five cheque books, and 12 bottles of phensedyl from his possession.
Police later filed one case under money-laundering prevention act and another under anti-narcotics act with Bhairab Railway Police Station.
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