Ex-MP Sakhawat gets bail

21 December 2009, 17:00 PM

A Correspondent, Jessore

Former lawmaker and presidium member of Jatiya Party (Ershad) Maulana Sakhawat Hossain was granted bail on Sunday in an extortion case. The court of additional chief judicial magistrate granted the bail prayer at noon. Sakhawat was released from jail in the evening. Sakhawat was arrested from his residence in Keshabpur of Jessore on Thursday night on charge of extortion and swindling. Earlier, principal of Masud Memorial College Masiur Rahman filed a case against him with Keshabpur police station on the same day. In the case, he alleged that Maulana Sakhawat had extorted around Tk 18 lakh from the college teachers at different periods between 2004 and 2007.