The High Court (HC) on 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 Taka 500,000 in a graft case.
A High Court division bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the judgement on Sunday.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 on October 23, 2022, had sentenced Md Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment and fined him Taka 500,000 in the case filed for amassing assets worth over Taka 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 hearing.
