Ex-BNP minister Ziaul Haque acquitted from charges

A Dhaka court Wednesday cancelled a lower court verdict and acquitted former BNP state minister Ziaul Haq Zia of a case filed for providing false information to Rajuk for getting government flat and plot in the city.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Waliul Islam on July 1, 2008 sentenced Zia to ten years' imprisonment and fined him Tk 10,000, in default of which he will have to serve one more year in jail for committing such offences. Judge Kader Newaz of the Special Judge's Court-2 passed the order following an appeal made by Zia against the lower court verdict.
On July 11 of 2007, CID Inspector Monir Hossain filed the case against Zia with Motijheel Police Station.
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