4 including retired army official get life term in arms case

A tribunal in Dhaka today sentenced four people, including a retired army official, to life term in jail in an arms case.

The convicts are: Col (retd) Shahid Uddin Chowdhury, his wife Farhana Anjum Khan, and two of their accomplices, Syed Akidul Ali and Khorshed Alam Patwary.

Of them, Akidul and Khorshed who are now in jail, were present at the tribunal but Shahid Uddin and his wife Farhana were absent.

Judge Md Robiul Alam of the Special Tribunal-4 of Dhaka delivered the sentence.

The punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the judge added.

The tribunal issued arrest warrants against the couple and sent it to Cantonment Police Station for the next course of action.

According to the prosecution, it was alleged that a team of Counter Terrorism & Transnational Crime Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on January 17 last year raided the residence of the couple in Baridhara DOHS and seized two pistols with 11 rounds of bullets, a shotgun and several magazines from there.

Later, Biplob Kishore Shil, an inspector of CTTC, filed a case against four people including the couple with Cantonment Police Station.

The CTTC on April 4 the same year pressed charges against four and the tribunal framed charges against them on August 13 last year.