Dhaka, July 3 -- Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is jailed for six months for contempt of court in one of cases facing the fugitive following last year's regime change.

A three-member bench of the The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) in Dhaka, headed by its Chairman Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, Wednesday delivered the verdict after holding hearings on the charge brought against two, including Hasina.

The other sentenced by the tribunal in the same case is Shakil Akand Bulbul, the former chief of Gaibandha's Gobindaganj Upazila unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), her party's student wing.

He is sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam said the sentence will take effect o...