Ex-Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar fined over Tk 27 lakh in ACC case

Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka Court has asked BNP Standing Committee Member and also former Speaker of the Parliament, Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar to deposit Tk 27 lakh to the state exchequer in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Judge of the Special Judge’s Court-7 in Dhaka, Pradip Kumar Roy, passed the order recently after hearing the case, said Zakir Hossain Bhuiyan, a counsel of Jamiruddin Sircar.
The lawyer further said that the ACC filed five separate cases against the former Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar in 2010 on charges of different allegations including the embezzlement of the public money.
Two years later, in 2012, the ACC submitted a charge sheet to the court in the case filed over money embezzlement.
In 2016, the High Court (HC) delivered split verdicts over a petition filed by the BNP leader to rescind the corruption charges brought against him in the cases.
Lawyer Zakir Hossain said, “After hearing the case the Appellate Division delivered a verdict last year. In the verdict, Jamiruddin Sircar was asked to deposit Tk 27 lakh, the alleged amount he misappropriated from public funds for his treatment, to the government treasury.”
Recently the trial court asked Jamiruddin Sircar to deposit the money in the government exchequer by July 9 this year, said the lawyer adding that they will deposit the money in one or two days.
ACC lodged the cases with Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Police Station on 28 December in 2010. Later police submitted a charge sheet in the case on November 7 in 2012.