Dhaka: The Bangladesh Court on Tuesday was sentenced to former Top Surendra Kumar Sinha Judge, the main justice of the country from a minority Hindu community, up to 11 years in prison with two charges of corruption in the case of washing and violations of trust.
Dhaka Special Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam sentenced the former chairman of the chairman, who currently lives in the US, for seven years in prison for money laundering and four more years for criminal violations of trust.
The term prison will run together, Dhaka Tribune Newspaper reported.
“(Justice) Sinha SK is the main beneficiary of washing money,” said the court in its decision.
Sinha, 70, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a case involving TK4 Crore washing taken in credit from a farmer bank, which is now known as Padma Bank, the report said.
Sinha served as chairman of justice for two years before leaving the country in 2017, months after the Supreme Court’s decision under his tenure of Bangladesh’s strippmaker from their power to dismiss the country’s top judge.
Sinha accused him of being forced to resign because he opposed the term “undemocratic” and “authoritarian” Bangladesh