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Download PDF A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced former BNP lawmaker from Bagerhat MAH Salim to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for extorting Tk 12 lakh from the owner of a construction firm in September 2006.
Salim was also fined Tk 50,000 in default of which he will have to suffer two months more in jail.
Judge Nigar Sultana of the Fourth Assistant Sessions Judge’s Court handed down the sentence in the presence of the convict.
This is the first time Salim, also chairman of private television channel Channel 1, has been convicted in a case since his arrest on March 7 last year under section 16(2) of the Emergency Power Rules.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed arguments and the court recorded statements of 16 prosecution witnesses.
Zahidul Islam Faruq, proprietor of Faruq Construction Firm Ltd, filed the case against Salim with Gulshan Police Station on June 10 last year, saying Salim demanded Tk 12 lakh for letting him work on a project of the Local Government Engineering Department. Zahidul had won work orders for the project.
The complainant said he had no option but to give in to the then lawmaker’s mounting pressure and pay him a cheque of Tk 12 lakh on September 19, 2006.
After Salim’s arrest nine criminal cases were filed against him in Bagerhat while two cases for extortion and one each for tax evasion and graft were filed with Gulshan police on different dates.
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