Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced eight people including former chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kar-tripakkha (RAJUK) Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury to 14 years jail in a graft case.
Judge of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-9, Abdus Salam pronounced the judgment in absence of the convicts , said bench assistant of the court Saiful Islam Mithu.
The other convicts are former Rajuk officials–SD Faiz, AKM Wahedul Islam, SM Zafar Ullah, HM Za-hurul Haque and Md Rezaul Karim Torafdar, Amber Group Managing Director Shawkat Aziz and Ash-faq Aziz.
The court also fined them Tk 20 lakh each, in default, to suffer, one year more in rigorous imprison-ment.
The court also issued warrants for their arrest.
The court also asked the state to confiscate the two plots in the name of Shawkat Aziz and Ashfaq Aziz -after cancelling the plots allocated for them.
Deputy-assistant director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Silvia Ferdousi, filed a case against six former Rajuk officials including its former chairman and Shawkat Aziz and Ashfak Aziz for allocat-ing 20 kathas plot in Purbachal taking advantage of their power.
According to the prosecution, the accused in collusion with one another, allocated two plots measuring 10 kathas each, totalling 20 kathas, in Purbachal in the names of Shawkat Aziz and Ashfaq Aziz, causing financial loss to the state.
A case was filed against them in February, 2017.
After completing its investigation, the agency submitted a charge sheet to the court.
Subsequently, the court framed charges against the accused and ordered the trial to begin.
During the trial, the prosecution examined a total of nine witnesses.
