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Atiqullah gets 7yrs in fifth case

Staff Correspondent
Detained Daily Janakantha Editor Atiqullah Khan Masud has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a case filed against him for forging a design approval from Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
Judge Khan daker Kamaluzzaman of Special Court-9 delivered the verdict yesterday making it the fifth jail term handed down to Atiqulluah by separate courts.
He has now been sentenced to a total of 41 years in jail.
The court also sentenced Rajuk Authorised Officer Fouzi Mohammad Bin Farid to seven years' imprisonment for abetting Atiqullah
The two were also fined Tk 9.37 crore, in default of which they have to suffer six months more in jail. The convicted will have to pay the finejointly.
Both Atiqullah and Fouzi are in jail at the moment
Earlier, Atiqullah was sentenced to 34 years' imprisonment, seven years in each of the three cases filed against him for forging a design approval from Rajuk, and 13 years imprisonment for amassing wealth beyond his known sources of< income and concealing information in his wealth statement.
ACC Deputy Assistant Director Mahmud Hasan filed the case against Atiqullah and two others on September 30,2007.
The name of the third accused in the case -- Sohrab Miah, a building inspector of Rajuk - was dropped from the charge sheet
According to the case statement, Atiqullah Khan benefited by construction of a building using a forged Rajuk approval. The case statement also named Fouzi and Sohrab who abetted Atiqullah in getting the forged approval.
The case statement also said that Atiqullah applied for Rajuk approval for a 15-storey building on Outer Circular road. The application submitted was for a building of 22.256 thousand square metres. But in the forged approval he obtained through illegal means, there was an additional 14.256 thousand square metres added to the original design, the case statement mentioned.
The case statement said Atiqullah sold flats in the building to 163 buyers and thus benefited by the amount of money he made from the transactions..
Joint forces arrested Atiqullah Masud from the Janakantha building in capital's Eskaton area on March 7 last year.