A court here today convicted and sentenced BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman to nine-year imprisonment and his wife Zubaida Rahman to three-year jail in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth of Taka 4.81 crore and concealing information about the wealth.
\nDhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman pronounced the judgment in a crowded courtroom this afternoon. The verdict was delivered in absence of the accused as both of them have been absconding.<\/p>\n
The court in its judgment said Zubaida aided her husband in committing the crimes.<\/p>\n
Tarique was sentenced to three-year imprisonment under section 26 (2) and six-year jail under section 27 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004. Both the sentences of jail will run concurrently, the judgment said. Zubaida on the other hand was sentenced to three-year imprisonment under section 27 (1) of the act.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A court here today convicted and sentenced BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman to nine-year imprisonment and his wife Zubaida Rahman to three-year jail in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth of Taka 4.81 crore and concealing information about the wealth. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman pronounced the judgment in a crowded courtroom this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40136,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134\/revisions\/40136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}