Two Dhaka courts on Thursday convicted and sentenced 29 leaders and activists of BNP and its front wings, including Jubo Dal president Sultan Salauddin Tuku and Swechasebak Dal general secretary Md Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel to different terms of jail in two separate sabotage cases.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury sentenced 20 BNP men to three years in jail in the case filed with Shahjahanpur Police Station in 2017.
They are Tuku, Jewel, BNP Dhaka South City unit member secretary Rafikul Alam Majnu, Md Bhashani Chaklader, Md Mohsin, Md Hanif Hossain Babu, Md Belal Uddin, Md Tarikul Islam Jikir, Md Baten, Kazi Md Jamal, Imran Khan Emon, Md Sohagh Bhuiyan, A Salam Khan, Arifur Rahman Sujon, Sheikh Shahidullah Tipu, Md Jahangir Hossain, Md Abdullah Jamal Chowdhury, Md Selim, Ahmed and Humayun Kabir Nahid.
The court sentenced the 20 convicts to two-year jail under Sections 148 and 34, while one more year of jail under Sections 427 and 34. But as both sentences will run concurrently, the convicts will have to suffer only two years behind bars.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin convicted nine BNP men and awarded them a two-year jail in the case filed with Gulshan Police Station in 2018.
They are Mehedi Bappi, Mainul Hasan alias Mishu, Shariful, Zakir Hossain, Mojibur Rahman, Mamun Chowdhury, Rubel Hossain, Atikur Rahman and Billal Hossain.
Source: BSS