Former Chief Justice SK Sinha-File photo

 DHAKA, July 10, 2025 (BSS) – A court here today fixed September 8 for submitting the investigation report in a graft case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, commonly known as SK Sinha.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md. Zakir Hossain Galib fixed the date for submitting the report in the case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in connection with amassing illegal wealth through misusing power.

On October 7, 2021, Deputy Director of the ACC Md. Gulshan Anwar filed the case with the Integrated District Office Dhaka-1 as plaintiff. 

In the case, SK Sinha was accused of acquiring assets worth Tk 7.14 crore in the name of his brother and relatives and transferring the money.

In the case statement it was alleged that former Chief Justice SK Sinha got a plot in his name in Uttara Residential Area from Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK). 

He also managed a three-katha plot for his brother Narendra Kumar Sinha in the Purbachal project of RAJUK allegedly by misusing his power and resorting to fraud. Then, he upgraded the three-katha plot to five kathas using his influence.

At one stage, he transferred the Purbachal plot to Road No. 6 (House No. 1/A) of Sector No. 4 of Uttara and got RAJUK's approval. After receiving the allotment, SK Sinha gave his relative Shankhajit Singh the 'Power of Attorney' for the plot.

During the investigation, the ACC found evidence that SK Sinha himself paid Tk 75 lakh to RAJUK in favor of the plot in Uttara. Later, a nine-storey building was constructed on that plot at a cost of over Tk 6.31 crore. The ACC estimated the construction cost through an independent engineer.

The ACC alleged that the value of the RAJUK plot is Tk 75 lakh. In total, Tk 7 crore, 6 lakh, 5 thousand 865 were spent.  Of the amount, 70 lakh was taken as an advance for the sale of a flat in the building from one Khaleda Chowdhury. Apart from this, the remaining Tk 6.36 crore and Tk 78 lakh were deposited in a bank account in the name of his relative, Shankhjit Singh. 

The ACC alleged that SK Sinha misused his power to acquire assets worth Tk 7.14 crore, which he transferred, converted and handed over through various bank accounts in the name of his brother and relatives, and there is no legitimate source of acquiring these assets and it is inconsistent with his known sources of income.

The ACC filed a case under Sections 27(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 2004 and 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947 and Sections 4(2), (3) of the Money Laundering Prevention Act of 2012 in this connection. 

Earlier on November 9, 2021, SK Sinha was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Dhaka court in two separate cases of embezzlement and smuggling of Tk 4 crore.