Haji Mohammad Salim

In September 2007, The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two corruption cases against Salim.[22] In April 2008, a special court sentenced Selim to 10 years' imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and another 3 years for concealing information in his wealth statement submitted to the ACC.[23] The judge also issued orders to confiscate all his ill-gotten assets worth Tk 270 million.[23] The court also sentenced his wife, Gulshan Ara (d. 2020), to 3 years' imprisonment for abetting her husband.[24][25][23] Salim filed an appeal with the High Court in October 2009 against the verdict.[26] Following the appeal, in January 2011, the High Court acquitted him of the corruption case.[26] The ACC then appealed against the HC verdict to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and in January 2015, it scrapped the High Court verdict and directed to hold a rehearing of Salim's appeal and to dispose of the appeal again.[26] In March 2021, the High Court upheld the verdict to 10 years' imprisonment in the corruption case but acquitted him of the charge of concealing wealth information in which he was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment.[26] On 10 February 2022, the High Court upheld the lower court's judgement convicting and sentencing Salim to 10 years in prison. He was asked to surrender to the trial court in 30 days.[27] On 22 May, he surrendered to the court and sought bail in the case but it was rejected and he was sent to the prison.[5] A day later, he was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for treatment.[28] On 6 June, the Supreme Court refused him to grant bail on the case.[28]

On 25 March 2004, six cases were filed against Salim following clashes between Awami League and BNP activists.[29]

In May 2009, Salim was acquitted in the murder case of Abdul Hannan, an activist of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Jubo Dal, the youth front of BNP by Speedy Trial Tribunal-1.[30] In July 2009, after Awami League came to power the government decided to withdraw 21 criminal cases against Salim.[7] The government stated that the cases were filed those were "politically motivated" and meant for "harassment". He had a total of 120 cases against him.[7]

In September 2011, the government of Bangladesh withdrew 105 cases against Salim.[31] In February 2012, a case over assaulting police officers in 2004 was withdrawn by the government.[32]

In February 2019, a number of buildings owned by him were demolished by Bangladesh Water Development Board for encroaching on riverbanks.[4] His some other buildings were demolished by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority; following its chairman, Commodore Mohammad Mozammel Haque, got transferred to a different location.[33]