A court in Dhaka on Sunday acquitted former Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar as he deposited Tk 27.86 lakh to the state exchequer following a court judgment in a graft case.
Sircar's lawyer Hannan Bhuiyan said they deposited the money through challan at Sonali Bank Supreme Court branch.
Judge Prodip Kumar Roy on March 6 pronounced the judgment, fining the former speaker Tk 27.86 lakh in the case.
The court in its order against Sircar, said the convict would be acquitted from the other four cases when he would deposit the money fined in this case.
A court in Dhaka on Sunday finally acquitted Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar in five cases filed for embezzling money in the name of treatment cost by misusing his power.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-7 Judge Prodip Kumar Roy passed the order on Sunday.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on December 28, 2010, filed five separate cases against Sircar, former BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain, former deputy speaker Akhter Hamid Siddiqui and national parliament official Ashraful Islam.
