Wife of ex-BB deputy governor jailed for 2yrs

A court has sentenced Suparna Sur Chowdhury, wife of former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitangshu Kumar Sur, also known as SK Sur Chowdhury, to two years in prison for failing to submit an asset declaration.

Judge Rabiul Islam of the Dhaka Special Judge’s Court delivered the verdict on Tuesday.

ACC Prosecutor Shah Md Nazmus Shakib said, “In addition to the sentence, she has been fined Tk 100,000. In default of payment of the fine, she will have to serve another three months in prison.”
Suparna was produced before the court from jail before the verdict was delivered.

Afterwards, a sentence warrant was issued and she was taken to prison.

According to the case details, a notice was issued against Suparna on the charge of acquiring assets beyond known income, asking her and her husband SK Sur’s dependents to submit a detailed statement of all movable or immovable assets or properties, liabilities, sources of income and their acquisitions acquired in their own name or anonymously.

Suparna accepted the asset declaration form with the order to submit the asset declaration under her signature on Oct 27, 2024, but she did not submit the asset declaration within 21 working days of receiving the order.

Based on this, on De 23 of that year, ACC Deputy Director Nazmul Hussain filed a case at the ACC Integrated District Office-1 as the plaintiff.

After an investigation, ACC Deputy Assistant Director AM Taher submitted the charge sheet to the court on Jun 29, 2025.

On Feb 3, the court framed charges against Suparna and ordered the case to trial. During the trial, the court heard the testimony of five people.�"bdnews24