The Crime Desk: The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division has overturned the 13-year sentence of BNP leader Amanullah Aman and his wife, Sabera, and acquitted them.
The three-member Appellate Division, headed by Acting Chief Justice Ashfaqul Islam, gave the verdict on Wednesday (April 30) in a case filed on charges of concealing information about assets and acquiring assets disproportionate to their known income.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon said that BNP leader Amanullah Aman and his wife, Sabera Aman, have been acquitted in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) case. The High Court’s verdict has been quashed by granting the appeal filed by the duo against the verdict.
Amanullah Aman’s lawyer, Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, said that there is no legal obstacle to participating in future elections due to his acquittal in the case.
Earlier, after the hearing, the Appellate Division had set April 30 for the verdict.
His lawyer, Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, began the hearing in favor of the application in the court. Lawyer Asif Hasan was on behalf of the ACC.
The ACC filed a case against the Aman couple at the Kafrul Police Station in the capital on March 6, 2007, on charges of concealing information about their assets and acquiring assets beyond their known income. On June 21 of that year, the Special Judge’s Court sentenced Aman to 13 years in prison and Sabera to three years.
They appealed against this verdict in the High Court. On August 16, 2010, the High Court allowed the appeal and acquitted them.
Later, when the ACC appealed, the Appellate Division declared the verdict of the High Court null and void on May 26, 2014. At the same time, a rehearing was ordered in the High Court.
Aman applied for a review of the verdict of the Appellate Division. Later, the Appellate Division dismissed the application. After that, after another hearing in the High Court Division, the sentence of his wife, Aman, was upheld.
