The High Court (HC) has 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 Tk 500,000 in a graft case.
An HC bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the judgment on Sunday.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 on October 23, 2022, had sentenced Md Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment and fined him Tk 500,000 in the case filed for amassing assets worth over Tk 3.14 crore.
The suspended DIG prisons later filed an appeal against the lower court judgment and the High Court on November 3, 2022, accepted his plea for a hearing.
Source: BSS