DHAKA: An appellate tribunal in Dhaka set aside Wednesday a six-month jail sentence handed to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Jan 1 this year for a labour law violation, coinciding with the announcement that he would be sworn in Thursday as the head of Bangladesh’s interim govt.
MA Awal, chairperson (in-charge) of the tribunal, delivered the verdict.“Prof Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of the charges,” AFP quoted lawyer Khaja Tanvir Ahmed as saying. Dhaka’s labour court-3 had also sentenced Grameen Telecom directors Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum. Yunus and his colleagues were also fined Tk 30,000 each, in default of which they were required to spend 25 more days in prison.
MA Awal, chairperson (in-charge) of the tribunal, delivered the verdict.“Prof Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of the charges,” AFP quoted lawyer Khaja Tanvir Ahmed as saying. Dhaka’s labour court-3 had also sentenced Grameen Telecom directors Ashraful Hassan, M Shahjahan and Nurjahan Begum. Yunus and his colleagues were also fined Tk 30,000 each, in default of which they were required to spend 25 more days in prison.
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