Overview
- Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court convicted Sheikh Hasina (five years), Sheikh Rehana (seven years) and Tulip Siddiq (two years) over alleged irregular allocation of a Purbachal New Town plot, with the verdicts delivered in absentia.
- The court fined each Tk 100,000 and cancelled the disputed plot allotted to Rehana, while most of the 17 defendants received five-year terms.
- Prosecutors said their evidence includes Siddiq’s communications with the former prime minister’s office and indicated they will notify UK authorities and consider further steps.
- Siddiq and a group of senior UK lawyers condemned the proceedings as contrived and unfair, and Labour said she was denied a fair chance to answer the charges.
- The ruling forms part of a wider post-ouster legal drive that has already produced a death sentence and separate 21-year corruption terms against Hasina.