Ex-DGHS driver Malek jailed for 5 years, wife for 3

A Dhaka court sentenced former driver of Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Abdul Malek and his wife Nargis Begum to five and three years of imprisonment respectively in a case filed over amassing wealth worth Tk 1.10 crore illegally.

Judge Md Jakaria Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-6 handed down the verdict in presence of the couple at the courtroom on Wednesday (April 16).

The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default of which, they will have to suffer three months more in jail.