Chattogram: A Chattogram court today sentenced a drug peddler to five years of rigorous imprisonment. The Judge of the 4th Additional Metropolitan Session Court, Begum Serazam Munira, delivered the judgment in absentia and also fined the convict five thousand taka, with an additional three months of simple jail punishment in default, court sources said.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the convicted person is Md Sabbir Ahmed, also known as Sona Meah, aged 46, son of the late Haji Habibur Rahman of Baroitali village under Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar district. The prosecution story reveals that a Chandgaon thana police team arrested the drug trader Sabbir along with 1,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from the Karampara area of Chandgaon thana in the city on February 18, 2014.
The court framed the charge against the accused on March 31, 2015, based on a charge sheet submitted by the police in the case filed under the Narcotics Control Act, sources said.