Hasina is currently residing in India and has defied court orders that she return to Bangladesh.

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

A Dhaka court on Thursday has sentenced Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years imprisonment on corruption charges. Dhaka's Special Judge - 5 Mohammd Abdullah Al Mamun announced the verdict of Sheikh Hasina sentenced to 21 years in prison, 7 years each, in three plot fraud cases. Sheikh Hasina Jailed in Corruption Case: Bangladesh Court Sentences Former Prime Minister to 21 Years in Prison for Corruption.