A court in Cox’s Bazar on Monday sentenced eight Rohingya men to life imprisonment in a case over smuggling some 2 lakh Yaba pills into the country in 2019.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Nishat Sultana pronounced the verdict.
The convicts are Md. Doula, Robi Alam, Md. Alam, Md. Shafiqul, Md. Noor, Noor-A-Alam, Ali Ahmed, and Nurul Amin. They were also fined Tk 1 lakh each.
They were present at the court when the verdict was announced, Public Prosecutor advocate Farid Alam said.
According to the case documents, on 19 September, 2019, a team of Teknaf Coast guard seized a fishing boat from Chera Dwip of Saint Martins in Cox's Bazar.
The eight convicts were arrested from there. Some 2 lakh Yaba pills and the fishing boat were seized.
MJM Uddin, a coast guard officer, filed a case in this regard.