Hasina to serve total 21-year jail terms in 3 plot scam cases
Published: 27 November 2025, 5:31:06
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been jailed for 21 years in three cases over corruption in the allocation of plots in Dhaka’s Purbachal New Town Project.
Judge Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun of the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka pronounced the judgement around 11:45AM on Thursday.
Hasina will serve seven-year jail sentences in each three cases.
Hasinas son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, ço-accused in a case alongside their mother, have also been sentenced to five-year each in prison.
The three have been convicted of ‘hiding information on’ houses, flats, or housing facilities in Dhaka city to illegally obtain three 10-katha plots of land in the project through the exploitation of state power.
The verdict was announced in their absence as they were fugitive.
One co-accused, RAJUK official Saiful Islam, was acquitted in the case.
On November 23, the arguments of the prosecution and defence in the cases were completed.
Earlier this morning, the court started reading out the judgment at 11:23AM.
“The plot was allotted to Sheikh Hasina without any application and in a manner that exceeded the legally authorised jurisdiction,” the court observed in its judgment.
On July 31, the court framed charges against 47 people including Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul in the cases.
The other accused in the cases are Hasina’s sister Sheikh Rehana, her daughters Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Azmina Siddiq Ruponti, son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works Shahid Ullah Khandaker, Additional Secretary Kazi Wasi Uddin, Administrative Officer Saiful Islam Sarker, Senior Assistant Secretary Purabi Goldar, former Rajuk Chairman Anisur Rahman Mia, former members Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Kabir Al Asad, Tanmoy Das, Nurul Islam, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Shamsuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Director Sheikh Shahinul Islam, Deputy Directors Hafizur Rahman and Habibur Rahman, former State Minister Sharif Ahmed, and former Prime Minister’s Private Secretary Salauddin.
Ninety-one witnesses testified in the cases.
The ACC filed the six cases in January this year accusing them of illegally securing Rajuk plots misusing their positions.
Chargesheets in all six cases were submitted to court.
According to the case statement, Sheikh Hasina and her family members in collaboration with high-ranking officials of Rajuk allocated plots on political considerations through abuse of power and irregularities,
On July 20, the six cases over RAJUK plot allocation were transferred to the two special courts—Dhaka Special Court-4 and Special Court-5.
