Two heroin peddlers get death penalty

A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced two drug paddlers to death.

The court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mujibur Rahman Bhuiyan also fined Hossain Ahmed Manik and Parvez Alam Sumon Tk 1 lakh each, said Additional Public Prosecutor Mofur Ali.

They are from Beanibazar upazila. Parvez is in Sylhet Central Jail and Manik on the run. According to the prosecution, a parcel was received at Sylhet Post Office from Pakistan on March 9, 2014.

When postal supervisor inspected it, he found 8.025 grammes of heroin in it. The postal department filed a case with Daksin Surma Police Station.

Police found the drug peddler through the phone number mentioned on the parcel.