HC upholds judgement against former Jamuna Bank boss

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday upheld a trial court judgement, sentencing former chairman of Jamuna Bank Arifur Rahman to one year imprisonment in a case lodged over cheque forgery, reports BSS.

A single member High Court bench of Justice Md. Rais Uddin passed the order, dismissing Rahman's appeal against the 2016 judgement.

According to the case documents, Rahman in 2011 took Taka 15 crore in cash from Borak Real Estate and gave them cheque in return against the money. But later the company tried to deposit the cheque but it bounced back from bank.

Borak in 2012 filed the case with a magistrate court, and the court on January 24, 2016, sentenced Rahman to one-year imprisonment and fined him Taka 50 lakh. The court also ordered him to return the money he had taken from the real estate company.

“My client has already paid them Taka 7.50 crore following the lower court order. The High Court now has ordered him to pay the rest of the money within 60 days,” said Advocate Delwar Hossain Laskar, counsel for the petitioner.