Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment in three cases filed over Dhaka’s Purbachal plot scam.

Her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul was jailed for five years each in one of the three cases.

Among the 20 other accused, 19 were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment while Housing and Public Works Ministry’s former administrative officer Saiful Islam Sarkar was acquitted in all the three cases.

The jail terms of 78-year-old Hasina will run consecutively, Judge Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun of the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka said while delivering the verdict in their absence at the courtroom.

Hasina, who is now in India, was sentenced to death by International Crime Tribunal on November 17 for crimes against humanity during July uprising last year.

The anti-graft body — between January 12 to 14 — lodged six separate cases with its Dhaka Integrated District Office-1 over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Purbachal New Town project.

The ACC alleged that Hasina, in collusion with senior Rajuk officials, unlawfully secured six plots — each measuring 10 kathas, in the diplomatic zone of Sector 27 of the Purbachal New Town project for herself, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul; sister Sheikh Rehana and her son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, and daughter Azmina Siddiq, despite their ineligibility under existing regulations.

On March 25, the ACC filed six charge sheets with the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka where Hasina was named as a common accused in all six cases.

On July 31, charges were framed against 29 people, including Hasina, Rehana, Joy, Putul, Bobby, Tulip and Azmina, in their respective cases.