DIG prisons Bazlur Rashid denied bail

The appellate division of the supreme court denied bail to suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in connection with a corruption case.

A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Justice Burhanuddin passed the order on Monday (January 29).

Advocate SM Rezaul Karim moved for the petitioner while Advocate Khurshid Alam stood for the Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC).

Earlier, Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 on 23 October 2022, had sentenced Md Bazlur Rashid to five-year imprisonment and fined him Tk5,00,000 in the case filed for amassing assets worth over Tk3.14 crore.

On October 20, 2019, ACC officials interrogated Bazlur Rashid at the ACC headquarters. Later, ACC filed the case against him. On August 26, 2020, ACC deputy director Nasir Uddin submitted charge sheet against him after investigation.