Yaba factory inside Ctg house: Three sentenced to 20yrs in jail

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced three people to 20 years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed for turning their house into a yaba factory in the city's Beparipara area in 2017.In the same case, the court also sentenced another person to six years in jail.

Nargis Akhter, judge of 5th additional metropolitan session judge's court, handed down the verdict after the court found them guilty beyond doubt crossing all the records and witnesses.

The convicts are Shaymal Majumdar, Md Mamum Hossen alias Mamun, Ayesha Siddique and Abdullah Al Aman. Among them Shaymal, Mamun and Ayesha were given 20 years of jail while Aman was sentenced to six-year of jail, said Farid Ahmed, bench assistant of the court. According to the case statement, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) busted a yaba factory and arrested four persons from a flat in port city's Beparipara area on December 27, 2017.

During the drive, 2.5 lakh yaba pills, raw materials enough to make around 10 lakh yaba pills, two yaba-making machines and four moulds were recovered from the flat. Inspector Md Kamruzzaman filed a case accusing the four with Double Mooring Police Station the following day.

Police later pressed charges in this case implicating the four.