Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman gets 3-year jail

Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 on Thursday handed down three-year imprisonment to the Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in a case for hiding his wealth information from the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The judge of the Special Judge’s Court-3, Abu Ahmed Jamadar, passed the order in presence of Rahman.
In an immediate reaction after the verdict, Rahman said the verdict is fraudulent.
‘The punishment has come down on me only for reporting against the son of Sheikh Hasina and her advisor of power, energy and mineral resources,’ he said.
On June13, 2010, deputy director of ACC and investigation officer of the case Nur Ahmed had lodged the case against the editor with Gulshan police station.
The IO had submitted the charge sheet over the case on July 15, 2010. He was indicted on April 28, 2014.
Mahmudur Rahman was arrested at his office in Karwan Bazar in the capital on April 11, 2013 in three cases including a sedition one.

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