2 drug peddlers get life-term
A court here yesterday sentenced two drug peddlers to life-term rigorous imprisonment (RI).
The court also fined each of them Tk 20,000, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.
The convicts are Soyebur Rahman, 55, son of Dost Mohammad, and Majibur Rahman, 40, son of Sadol Ibrahim of Bag Durgapur village in Shibganj upazila of the district.
Judge Ziaur Rahman of Chapainawabganj Special Tribunal-2, also additional district and sessions judge, handed down the verdict in presence of the accused.
According to the prosecution, members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-5 arrested Soyebur and Majibur with 200 grams of heroin from the Kansat-Gopalnagar intersection in Shibganj upazila on March 2 in 2016.
Nayaek Subedar Mofazzal Hossain filed a case against them the same night with Shibganj Police Station under Narcotics Control Act.
On completion of investigation, Investigation Officer Sub-Inspector Gazi Moazzem Hossain pressed charges against them on May 30 the same year.
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