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Drug trader jailed life term imprisonment in Chattogram

GreenWatch Desk Courts 2023-01-11, 11:48pm

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A Chattogram court here today sentenced life term imprisonment to a drug trader for trading drugs.

The Court of Chattogram 4th Metropolitan Additional Sessions Judge Nargis Akter awarded life term imprisonment to Md Tanvir, 38, for trading drugs in the city.

The court also fined Taka five thousand to Tanvir, in default, he will have to suffer more one year imprisonment.

According to the prosecution story in brief is that a team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), acting on a tip-off, detained drug trader Tanvir with 49,400 pieces of Yaba tablets from Sikolbaha area on September 12, in 2020.

RAB official Sirajul Islam filed a case with Karnaphuli thana against the alleged drug trader on the same day.  

The court framed charges against the convicted person on December 21 in 2021.

The court announced the verdict in presence of the accused after examining a total of nine prosecution witnesses out of 11, reports BSS.