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BREAKING: ● July proclamation not needed if it can't be declared unitedly: Dr Yunus      ● Lutfozzaman Babar walks out of jail after 17yrs      ● Govt condemns attack on ethnic minority students      ● Bangladesh confirms first death from HMPV      ● NBR decides to keep previous VAT rate on restaurants      ● Qatar, US announce Gaza truce, hostage release deal      ● Gaza war: Israel, Hamas agree on ceasefire deal       

10-Truck Arms Haul Case Quashed

Babar released from jail after 17 years

Published : Friday, 17 January, 2025 at 12:00 AM  Count : 102
Staff Correspondent
Former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, has been released from jail after 17 years in prison.

He was released from the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday afternoon, Deputy Jailer Jannatul Ferdous said, "The former state minister for home affairs was released from prison around 1:45pm as there were no more charges against him."

Earlier, Brig Gen Syed Md Motaher Hossain, Inspector General of Prisons, said he will be released after completing all formalities.

Family members, party leaders and supporters have already gathered outside the jail in anticipation of his release.

Babar was acquitted of his life imprisonment term in the widely discussed 10-truck arms smuggling case on Tuesday.

On April 1, 2004, a consignment of 10 trucks of weapons was seized from the CUFL Ghat in Chattogram. Two cases were filed with the Karnaphuli Police Station in the port city over the incident, alleging smuggling under the Arms Act and the Special Powers Act.

On December 18, Babar and six others were acquitted by the High Court in the Special Powers Act case. 

Six other convicts sentenced to death by a judge's court have had their sentences reduced to 10 years in prison.

In the case filed under the Arms Act, all the accused in the case, including Babar, former industries minister and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, and military commander of Indian separatist organisation ULFA leader Paresh Barua, were sentenced to life in prison. The convicts filed separate appeals in the High Court in 2014 against their sentences from prison.

Babar was acquitted in the Arms Act case on Tuesday, clearing the way for Babar's release from prison.



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