A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years’ rigorous
imprisonment for possessing arms in the city.
The court also fined the convict, Hasan Ahmed Basu, 28, son of Mokon
Mia of Sadarpara on the city’s outskirt Shahjalal, Tk 5,000, in
default, to suffer three months more in prison.
According to the prosecution in brief, a team of police arrested two
young men—Hasan Ahmed Basu and Romin—along with home made pipe gun
from a place of the city on January 14, 2008.
A case was filed against them under the Arms Act.
Later, police submitted a charge sheet against them after completing
investigation on February 2, in the same year.
After examining eight witnesses and documents, Judge of the Additional
Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court and Special Tribunial-2 Mohammad
Iftekhar Bin Aziz handed down the verdict.
The court acquitted Romin as the allegations against him could not be
proved. -UNB, Sylhet
