Dhaka: Condemned convict in ten-truck arms haul case and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar was released on parole for six hours on Tuesday evening to attend his mother’s namaz-e-janaza, said a senior prison officer.

Contacted, senior jail super of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 Subrata Kumar Bala told UNB that Babar was taken to Dhaka from Kashimpur Jail of Gazipur in the morning to produce him before the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka at the makeshift court set up in a building near the Dhaka Central Jail in connection with 21 August grenade attack.

He was released on parole at around 6:30 pm from Dhaka for six hours so that he would be able to attend the namaj-e-janaza of his mother at a mosque in Gulshan area of the capital.

He will be taken back to the jail after six hours, added the jail super.

Sources said Babar’s mother died on Monday night at a city hospital.

On 30 January in 2014, the Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 sentenced 14 persons, including Babar, to death on charges of their involvement in the smuggling of ten truckloads of arms into Bangladesh. The consignment was intercepted on 2 April 2004, from the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited.