8 Rohingyas get life term for smuggling 2 lakh yaba
A Cox's Bazar court today sentenced eight Rohingyas to life term imprisonment for smuggling yaba.
Cox's Bazar Additional District and Sessions Judge Nishat Sultana passed the order and also fined them Tk 100,000 each. In default, they have to serve another year in jail.
The convicts -- Mohammad Dhoilla, Robi Alam, Mohammad Alam, Mohammad Shafiqul, Mohammad Nur, Noor-e-Alam, Ali Ahmed and Nurul Amin – were present at the courtroom during the verdict.
All of them hailed from Rakhine state of Myanmar, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports quoting Public Prosecutor Faridul Alam.
State lawyer Faridul Alam said, "In the early hours of September 19, 2019, the coast guard members saw suspicious movement of a fishing trawler in the sea adjacent to Chhera Dwip of St Martin's Island in Teknaf upazila and ordered to stop the vessel. The coast guard members managed to catch eight people after a chase. A total of 2 lakh yaba tablets were seized from them."
On the same day, a coast guard member filed a case with Teknaf Police Station against the eight.
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