The High Court today directed the jail authorities to immediately release Jaha Alam who was in jail for the last three years instead of the real accused in 26 corruption cases.
The High Court bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader came up with the order while hearing a rule over the legality of Jaha Alam’s suffering in jail.
The court passed the order after the director general of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), plaintiff of the cases and two other government officials appeared before it.
ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told the court that the commission has done a mistake by accusing Jaha Alam in the cases. The commission has already submitted an application to the lower court concerned to exonerate Jaha Alam from the cases, he said.
The court fixed February 6 for further hearing on the rule.
On January 28, the HC summoned the ACC DG and the three to explain why a person named Jaha Alam, instead of the real accused, was in jail for the last three years.
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