A court here on Wednesday sentenced BNP Vice Chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury to three years’ imprisonment for threatening to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Chattogram Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Shahidullah Kaiser passed the order and fined him Tk 5,000.

He will have to suffer in jail for three months more if he fails to pay the fine.

On May 30, Nazim Uddin Muhuri, general secretary of Awami League's Fatikchhari unit, filed the case against Giasuddin, the younger brother of executed war criminal Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.

During a discussion programme marking the death anniversary of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman at Fatikchhari upazila on May 29, 2018, Giasuddin said the fate of Sheikh Hasina would turn out to be worse than that of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1975.