DHAKA: A court in Dhaka on Monday convicted ousted PM Sheikh Hasina and sentenced her to 10 years’ imprisonment and her niece Tulip Siddiq to four years in jail in two separate cases over irregularities in the allocation of two plots in the Rajuk New Town Project. They were tried in absentia. In one of the cases, the court also sentenced Tulip’s sister Azmina Siddiq and brother Radwan Mujib Siddiq to seven years’ imprisonment each.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court has set Feb 25 for hearing an appeal filed by the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal prosecution seeking enhancement of the sentences of Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal from imprisonment till death in a “crimes against humanity” case related to the 2024 protests that led to her ouster.
Earlier, the tribunal sentenced both Hasina and Kamal to imprisonment till natural death on other cases of “crimes against humanity”. Chamber Justice Md Rezaul Haque of SC’s appellate division fixed the date and forwarded the matter to a full bench of the apex court for hearing on that day.
