Dhaka, July 26 -- Surendra Kumar Sinha, the former chief justice of Bangladesh, has sought political asylum in Canada.

He entered Canada at Fort Erie on July 4 and filed a refugee claim, reports Canadian online news portal The Star.

The former chief justice has been living abroad since November 2017. He has mostly stayed in the United States.

In early July, the Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh accused Sinha and 10 others of accumulating illegal wealth and laundering Tk 4 crore. He denies the charges.

"I'm the enemy of the country, the persona non grata," Sinha, Bangladesh's first non-Muslim chief justice, told The Star in an interview,

He went on leave on October 2, 2017, and left for Australia on October 13.

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