DHAKA, Dec 9, 2024(BSS) - The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today instructed the Sonali Bank authority to pay Taka 20 lakhs to Haren Chandra Nath as expenses for running legal battle against the bank, as he won a case filed against him after long 39 years.

A 3-member bench of the appellate division headed by Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam pronounced the verdict in favour of Haren, who lost his job from the Sonali Bank in 1986 for his alleged involvement in embezzling Taka 16 lakhs along with eight others. 

The court ordered to pay the money to Haren Chandra Nath within three months. Barrister Omar Faruque as a lawyer of the Legal Aid Association of Bangladesh moved for Haren in the Supreme Court.

Talking to newsmen after the verdict, he (Haren) said it has been proved through this judgment that the Sonali Bank authority had filed a false case against Haren, who is now an old man. 

After losing the job, he took a job of a bus conductor at one stage of his life to run his family, the lawyer said adding that many of justice seekers in the country have been suffering from such false cases.

Haren Chandra Nath, hailed from Helalpur village under Khoksa upazila in Kushtia district passed 39 years of his life in the courts seeking justice. He was also acquitted from the charge of embezzlement of bank money in the High Court but the bank authority delayed the case by filing appeal before the higher court.