The Appeal Division remains sentences of BNP Mir Nasir leader, son Mir Helal

The appeal division remained the 13-year prison sentence of the BNP leader and the former Minister of State, Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, and the three-year punishment of his son, the co-organizing secretary of the BNP, Mir Mohammad Helal Uddin, in a corruption file filed by the Anticorruption Commission (ACC).

Also, the court granted them permission to appeal against the verdict of the High Court.

The order was adopted today (March 16) by a bank in the Appeal Division led by the MD Ashfaqul Islam justice, which granted separate leave to appeal to both people. Barrister Ragib Rauf Chowdhury was represented in court.

The case was initially submitted by ACC on March 6, 2007 at the Gulshan Police Section, accusing Mir Nasir and Mir Helal of acquiring illegal assets and hiding information about assets.

The court of a special judge sentenced Mir Nasir to 13 years in prison and Mir Helal to three years on July 4, 2007.

Both appealed to Verdict, and the High Court paid Mir Nasir on August 10, 2010 and Mir Helal on August 2 in the same year.

However, the ACC challenged the payment, and on July 4, 2014, the appeal division canceled the High Court’s verdict, forcing a repeat of appeals.

Following the Directive of the Appeal Division, the Bank of Justice of the High Court AKM Abdul Hakim and Justice Fatema Nazib renewed the case and pronounced a verdict on November 19, 2019, supporting the sentences.

Mir Nasir and Mir Helal surrendered later and filed a call for appeal, which led to today’s order by the Appeal Division.