Suspended DIG Bazlur Rashid gets five-year jail in graft case

Court Correspondent :
The Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday sentenced suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Department of Prisons, Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on the charge of illegally amassing assets worth over Tk 3.14 crore.
The court also fined him Tk 500,000, in default, he will have to suffer six months more in the prison.
Judge Iqbal Hossain of the special court handed down the verdict on Sunday afternoon.
On September 22, the court fixed Sunday to pronounce the judgment after the end of recording the depositions of the witnesses in the case.
According to the charge sheet, Bazlur Rashid bought a 2,981 square-feet apartment of the under construction ‘Sapna Niloy’ project of ‘Rupayan Housing Estate’ at Siddhiswari of the capital.
The charge sheet says that Bazlur Rashid paid Tk 3.8 crore for the apartment, but he could not show any valid source of the money and failed to show any information about the purchase of the apartment in his income tax return.
On October 20 of 2019, the ACC arrested Bazlur Rashid and his wife after interrogation.
Then ACC Deputy Director Md Salauddin filed the case against him on the same day.