Jamir Uddin Sircar asked to deposit Tk 28 lakh to govt treasury

A Special Court of Dhaka has asked the BNP standing committee member and former speaker Jamir Uddin Sircar to deposit Tk 27,86,364 to the government treasury in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). 

Judge Pradip Kumar Roy, Dhaka Special Judge Court-7, passed the order on Monday (March 13). The court asked Jamir Uddin Sircar to deposit the money by 9 July.

It was learned that the ACC filed five separate cases against the former speaker Jamir Uddin Sircar in 2010 on charges of different allegations including the embezzlement of the public money. 

Two years later, in 2012, the ACC submitted a charge sheet to the court in the case filled over money embezzlement. 

In 2016, the High Court (HC) delivered split verdicts over a petition filed by the BNP leader to rescind the separate corruption charges.

The Appellate Division delivered a verdict after hearing last year. In the verdict, he has been ordered to deposit Tk 27,86,364-- the amount of money he misappropriated from public funds for his treatment -- to the government treasury.