Ragib Ali jailed for 14 years

Sylhet Correspondent: A court in Sylhet has sentenced industrialist Ragib Ali to 14 years imprisonment in a case filed for grabbing land through forgery.

The court has also sentenced three of his family members and an officer to 16 years imprisonment in the case.

Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman Hero pronounced the verdict in presence of the accused on Thursday noon.

Ali's son Abdul Hye, daughter Rozina Kadir, son-in-law Abdul Kadir and one Dewan Mostak Majid, an officer, have been awarded with 16 years jail.

The court has acquitted one Pankaj Kumar Gupta from the charges.

According to case details, a Hindu man donated the Tarapur Tea Estate and all other properties to Sri Sri Radha Krishna Jeu in 1915.

Pankaj became the 'Sebayet' (supervisor) of the estate in 1971 and later left for India, making Majid the Sebayet of the temporality.

Questions were raised over a Muslim becoming a Sebayet of a Hindu temporality. An investigation was launched later.

Investigators found that Majid had forged a land ministry official’s signature to lease the estate to Ragib's son Hye for 99 years.

Ragib sold the estate dividing it into 337 plots.

 

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