The High Court yesterday rejected bail petition filed by Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, who was earlier sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for not submitting wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A single bench of the HC comprised of Justice Abu Bakar Siddiquee rejected the bail petition.

However, the HC bench accepted Rana’s appeal for hearing that was filed against three years’ imprisonment handed down by a lower court in the corruption case. It called for the case record from the lower court.

Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan, counsel for Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) told reporters that the HC accepted the appeal filed by the Rana Plaza owner for hearing but rejected his bail petition in the same case. Sohel Rana cannot get released from jail following the HC order, he added.

Sohel Rana was sentenced to three years simple imprisonment in a corruption case filed by a Dhaka Court on August 29, 2017. The court also fined him Tk 50,000, and an additional three-month jail in default.

The ACC on May 21, 2015, lodged a case against Sohel Rana on charge of accumulating wealth illegally. ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station.

At least 1,129 people, mostly garment workers, were killed and some 2,515 others injured as Rana Plaza came down crushing in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on April 24, 2013.