11 passport brokers jailed

A mobile court here on Tuesday convicted 11 passport brokers and sentenced them to three months imprisonment for harassing passport seekers. The convict are Tapu Biswas, 40, Saiful Islam, 33, Fazlul Akhter Babul, 32, Alamgir Hossain, 35, Abdul Halim, 20, Rajib Hasan, 28, Monirul Islam, 40, Himu, 24, Abdul Mannan, 35, Hafizur Rahman, 39, Ashraful Islam, 45. Police arrested the brokers from local passport office on Tuesday morning. Later, they were handed over to the mobile court. The mobile court, led by Executive Magistrates Moshiur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, handed down the punishment.