A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years of imprisonment in three corruption cases, local media reported. According to the state-run BSS news agency, the three cases were filed over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots in the Rajuk New Town Project in Purbachol.

Hasina received a seven-year sentence in each of the three cases, amounting to a total of 21 years in prison. "The plot was allotted to Sheikh Hasina without any application and in a manner that exceeded the legally authorised jurisdiction," the court observed in its judgment.

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed six separate cases against Sheikh Hasina and her family members last January for allegedly illegally allocating the government's plots at the Purbachal area in Dhaka. The verdict in the remaining three cases will be announced on December 1.

The court sentenced Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy to five years in prison and a fine of Tk 100,000. The court sentenced Sheikh Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed Putul to five years in prison.