Dhaka, Nov. 27 -- A Dhaka court has sentenced Sheikh Hasina, the Bangladeshi prime minister ousted by the July Uprising, to a total of 21 years in jail in three cases over corruption in the allocation of plots in Dhaka's Purbachal New Town Project.

Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, each accused in a case alongside their mother, have both been sentenced to five years in prison.

The three have been convicted of "hiding information on" houses, flats, or housing facilities in Dhaka city to illegally obtain three 10-katha plots of land in the project through the exploitation of state power.

Dhaka Special Judge Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun delivered the verdicts in the three cases on Thursday.

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