The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Convicted former BNP state minister for power Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku was released from Kashimpur jail on parole for four hours yesterday following the death of his mother-in-law Mamjuda Chowdhury.

Mamjuda Chowdhury, 84, died of old age complications at the LabAid Hospital in the city yesterday morning.

DIG (Prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said that former state minister Tuku was released from Kashimpur jail at 4:00pm on parole for four hours to enable him attend the funeral of his mother-in-law.

Tuku was arrested by the joint forces from his residence in Dhaka on February 3, last year and later sentenced to nine years imprisonment in a corruption case.