A court has sentenced four people, including a former union parishad member, to life imprisonment in three separate drug cases in Sirajganj. On Wednesday (October 28) afternoon, Judge Nazrul Islam of the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-3 announced the verdict. All the accused were fugitives at the time of the verdict.
The convicted accused are Alam Sheikh of Puthiabari in Sirajganj municipal area, Bachchu Mia Akand of Pustigachha Southpara in Ullapara, and Rezaul Karim and Sakir Ali of Kansat village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj. The court also fined each accused 20,000 taka, in default of which they will have to serve an additional six months of rigorous imprisonment.
According to case details, on May 5, 2023, Sadar police detained Alam Sheikh with 50 grams of heroin from the jailkhana ghat area of the city protection embankment. On the other hand, on July 7, 2015, during a raid at the house of UP member Bachchu Mia Akand in Pustigachha village, 60 grams of heroin was seized. Furthermore, on March 22, 2012, Jamuna Bridge West Police Station arrested Rezaul Karim and Sakir Ali with 517 bottles of banned Indian Phensedyl after searching a Dhaka-bound private car at the Jamuna Bridge West roundabout checkpost.
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