The Awami League on Monday dismissed the Dhaka court docket verdict towards former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her members of the family in an Anti-Corruption Fee (ACC) case, calling it “fully predictable.”
Criticising the Muhammad Yunus-led interim authorities, the get together alleged that the ruling displays how the ACC has been “weaponised” for political motives by “determined, unelected males.”
Earlier within the day, the court docket sentenced Hasina to 5 years in jail over alleged irregularities within the Purbachal New City land allocation venture. Her sister, Sheikh Rehana, acquired a seven-year sentence, whereas her niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq, was sentenced to 2 years.
“No persuasive proof of corruption was heard on the ACC, as a result of none exists. Defendants didn’t have correct authorized illustration on the ACC and have been judged in absentia. The method fails to move any cheap check of judicial equity, some extent that has been made forcefully by each native and worldwide authorized consultants,” learn an announcement issued by the Awami League.
The get together alleged that unelected interim chief Muhammad Yunus is pursuing a private vendetta towards Sheikh Hasina and has baselessly focused elected officers abroad. It additional said that all the judicial and diplomatic episode is damaging and undermines Bangladesh’s worldwide status.
“No nation is free from corruption. However corruption must be investigated in a manner that’s not itself corrupt. The ACC has failed that check at this time. It’s managed by an unelected authorities run by the Awami League’s political opponents. It has completely focused members of the Awami League, or these seen to be sympathetic to our get together, and finished nothing to prosecute and even examine the cronyism that has escalated in Bangladesh since Muhammad Yunus and his so-called interim authorities took energy,” the Awami League quoted Hasina.
The previous PM said that the decision serves solely the pursuits of “Yunus and his ragtag coalition of extremists and opportunists”, warning that all the affair dangers damaging Bangladesh’s standing with key buying and selling companions.
(With IANS inputs)