Former PSC member Prof Mahfuz gets 8 years
A Mymensingh court yesterday sentenced Prof Mahfuzur Rahman, former member of Public Service Commission (PSC), to eight years in prison in a tax evasion case.
He was also fined Tk 58 lakh, in default, to serve one year more in jail.
Judge Shahidul Karim of Mymensingh District and Sessions Judge's Court handed down the verdict in presence of Prof Mahfuzur Rahman.
Amjad Hossain, an official of Tax Region-2 Mymensingh circle, filed the case during the caretaker government in 2007 against Prof Mahfuzur Rahman on charge of tax evasion.
A teacher of the Faculty of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Prof Mahfuzur was sacked from his job by the BAU authorities in 2008 as he went into hiding after filing of the case.
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