Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced the Bangla daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman to three years’ jail in a case for non-submission of his wealth statement and also income sources filed with Anti-Corruption Commission.

Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 passed the order.

The court also fined Rahman Tk one lakh.  

He will have to suffer imprisonment of one month more if he fails to pay the fine.

The court handed down the verdict after receiving statements of nine witnesses.

Earlier on 27 April 2014, the court indicted Mahmudur Rahman in the case.

On 11 September 2014, the High Court summarily rejected the petition filed by detained Mahmudur Rahman seeking to revoke the charge framing order against him for not submitting his wealth account to ACC.

The court framed charges against him under Anti Corruption Commission Act, section-26(2)a.  

ACC deputy director and investigation officer in the case Nur Ahammad filed the case against the editor with Gulshan police on 13 April 2010.

A charge sheet was submitted on this case on 15 July 2010.

On 11 April 2013, members of the detective branch (DB) of police picked up Mahmudur from his office.

The arrest was made almost four months after the acting editor was sued for publishing reports on Skype conversations between former International Crimes Tribunal chairman Justice Nizamul Huq and an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert Ahmed Ziauddin last year.