HC upholds jail sentence of ex-DIG Prisons Bazlur in graft case

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18 June, 2023, 06:05 pm

Last modified: 18 June, 2023, 06:13 pm

HC upholds jail sentence of ex-DIG Prisons Bazlur in graft case

The High Court (HC) on Sunday upheld a lower court judgment that had convicted and sentenced former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Md Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment and fined him Tk5,00,000 in a graft case.

A High Court division bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the judgement today.

Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 on 23 October 2022, had sentenced Md Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment and fined him Tk5,00,000 in the case filed for amassing assets worth over Tk3.14 crore.

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The suspended DIG prisons later filed an appeal against the lower court judgment and the High Court on 3 November 2022, accepted his plea for hearing.

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