Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Shamsul Alam of Speedy Trial Court-3 handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts SI Abul Hashem of Uttara Police Station and Shafiqul Islam, the informer.

The court fined them Tk 5,000 each, in default they will have to serve two months more in jail.

Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 13 prosecution witnesses.

According to the prosecution, SI Hashem arrested Bibhash Chandra Sarker, younger brother of the complainant, and asked his mother Manzila Rani Sarker to meet him at about 10:30am on March 2.

Manzila went to the police station the next day where Hashem demanded Tk 50,000 as extortion and said if she refuses to oblige her son will be implicated in a dozen cases.

And if she gives the demanded money her son will be implicated under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code, Hashem told Manzila.

The complainant said he along with five others went to Uttara in the city at about 10:05am on March 3 to give the money.

Detective Branch police caught Shafiqul red-handed from the spot when he reached there and received the money from the complainant. The plaintiff gave him Tk 5,000 instead of Tk 50,000.

Following information from the arrestee, police arrested SI Hashem and an extortion case was filed with Uttara police under Speedy Trial (Law and Order Disruption) Act against them the following day.