Plot to kill Joy: Shafik Rehman, Mahmudur Rahman jailed for 7 years

A court in Dhaka has sentenced five people, including Jaijaidin founding Editor Shafik Rehman and the daily Amar Desh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman, to seven years in jail in a case over conspiracy to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy. 

Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur handed down the verdict on Thursday.

The other convicts are Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha's vice president Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizvi Ahmed alias Caesar and US expatriate businessman Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan.

On August 3 of 2015, then inspector of Police's Detective Branch Fazlur Rahman filed the case with Paltan Police Station, Dhaka.

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