The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Brahmanbaria

As many as ten commissioners of Kosba pourasava were sentenced to two years imprisonment by a court here Tuesday for corruption in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission under the countrywide purge.

The convicted commissioners are Jasimuddin, Hira, Chand Miah, Abul Hashem, Akter Hossain, Nizamuddin Dhanu, Ayesha Begum, Sheuli Akter, Nurunnabi Dulal and Anwara Begum.

They stood in the dock as dumbfounded as the judgment pronounced the punishment for the wrongdoing on part of the elected public representatives.

The commissioners were also fined to pay different amounts of money as a pecuniary punishment.