A Natore court sentenced two people, including a woman, to life imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking heroin, on Thursday.
Natore Senior District and Sessions Judge Md Sharif Uddin passed the order in the presence of the convicts Fatema Begum (45) and Masud Rana (34).
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The judge also fined them Tk 20,000 each in default of which they have to serve six more months in jail.
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion tried to stop a speeding motorcycle in the Chakbaidyanath area of Natore City on January 21 this year, said Assistant Public Prosecutor Arif Sarkar.
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At that time, Fatema and Masud, who were on a motorcycle, tried to escape by leaving the motorcycle but got caught. Later, Fatema’s bag was searched, and 210 gramms of heroin were recovered, said Arif.
Later, RAB filed a case against them, he said.