Netrakona, Sept 23 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday awarded life imprisonment to three people in a case filed for possessing drugs.
The convicts -- Shahriar Alam, Nazmul Haque and Rafiqul Islam, all hailing from Purbadhala upazila -- were also fined Tk 50,000 each and in default, they will have to suffer one more year in jail.
Judge KM Rasheduzzaman of Netrakona District and Session’s Judge Court handed down the verdict with the convicts standing in the dock.
According to the prosecution, police in a drive arrested the three convicts along with 5 grams of heroin from Shyamganj Chourasta area in the upazila on June 6, 2015.
Later, sub-inspector Rafiqul Islam of Purbadhala Police Station filed a case.