Verdict against 11 including SK Sinha on Thursday

A Dhaka court will deliver its verdict in a graft case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others on Thursday (October 21).

Ali Hossain, the acting judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court-4, fixed the new date for the verdict on October 5.

On September 14, Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam of the Dhaka Fourth Special Judge’s Court fixed the verdict date after completion of the closing arguments in the case. Later, it was deferred.

On July 10, 2019 the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case for embezzling Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank (now Padma Bank).

Apart from SK Sinha, the other accused in the case are – Md Mahbubul Huque Chisty alias Babul Chisty, former chairman of the audit committee of Farmers Bank Limited, first vice-presidents Swapan Kumar Roy and Shafiuddin Ashkari, vice president Md. Lutful Huque, former MD AKM Shameem, former SEVP Gazi Salahuddin, bank clients Md. Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, his uncle Ranajit Chandra Saha, and Ranajit’s wife Santree Roy.

On December 8 the same year, ACC Director Md Benjir Ahammad, also the investigation officer of the case, pressed charges against the accused.

The trial began on August 13 last year through framing of the charges against the 11 accused.