Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku

Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tukut
State Minister of Power
In office
2001–2006
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia
Personal details
Political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former State Minister of Power from 2001 to 2006.[1][2]

Career

He served as the State Minister of Power in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government from 2001 to 2006.[3] Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission on 21 March 2007 filled a case, accusing him of accumulating 25 million taka through illegal means. On 15 November 2007, he was sentenced by a special court to nine years in jail in the case. He filed an appeal against the verdict on December 2007. On 16 June 2011, he was acquitted in Bangladesh High Court. On 4 December 2011 the Anti Corruption commission filed an appeal against the verdict. His acquittal was scrapped in the Appellate Division on 27 January 2014.[4] He filed an appeal which was disposed in 2016 and a new hearing ordered in the Appellate Division.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Minister Mosharraf asked to surrender". The Daily Star. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Tuku jailed for 9yrs for ill-gotten wealth". The Daily Star. 16 November 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Father does not believe it". The Daily Star. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "SC scraps Tuku's acquittal in graft case". The Daily Star. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "BNP leader Tuku has to go for fresh HC hearing in graft case". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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