Ex-SI among 5 get 10yr imprisonment for robbery
Court Correspondent :
The Special Court-7 of Dhaka yesterday (Monday) sentenced five persons including a former Sub-Inspector of Shahbagh Police Station in the city to 10 years imprisonment each in a case filed for looting Tk 18 lakh in 2011.
Judge Md Shahidul Islam of the court gave the verdict on Monday. The court also fined the convicts Tk one lakh each in default each of them will suffer one more year in the prison. The convicts are-former SI Mosaddek Hossain Khan, Army’s former Launch Corporal Manirul Islam, Soldier Sazzad Hossain, Lutfur Rahman Khan and Liton Hawladar. The convicts were in service in RAB during the incident.
Of the convicts, besides- Mosaddek Hossain Khan and Liton Hawladar- other convicts are on the run. Warrant of arrests were issued against the fugitive convicts.
The court acquitted Alam Khan and Samuyel Boidya as allegations brought against them could not be proved beyond all doubts.
According to the prosecution, Moin Uddin, Manager of JK Sales and Company, went out to
deposit about Tk 18 lakh to South East Bank in Khilkhet area of the city on February 14, 2011. The convicts in RAB uniform picked Moin up in a microbus and forced him to step down from the vehicle at Matikata in the city without the money.
Later, Moin Uddin filed the case with Khilkhet Police Station.
Police later recovered Tk 12 lakh from the convicts and seized the microbus.
On May 30, 2011, police submitted the charge sheet of the case against seven people.
The Special Court-7 of Dhaka yesterday (Monday) sentenced five persons including a former Sub-Inspector of Shahbagh Police Station in the city to 10 years imprisonment each in a case filed for looting Tk 18 lakh in 2011.
Judge Md Shahidul Islam of the court gave the verdict on Monday. The court also fined the convicts Tk one lakh each in default each of them will suffer one more year in the prison. The convicts are-former SI Mosaddek Hossain Khan, Army’s former Launch Corporal Manirul Islam, Soldier Sazzad Hossain, Lutfur Rahman Khan and Liton Hawladar. The convicts were in service in RAB during the incident.
Of the convicts, besides- Mosaddek Hossain Khan and Liton Hawladar- other convicts are on the run. Warrant of arrests were issued against the fugitive convicts.
The court acquitted Alam Khan and Samuyel Boidya as allegations brought against them could not be proved beyond all doubts.
According to the prosecution, Moin Uddin, Manager of JK Sales and Company, went out to
deposit about Tk 18 lakh to South East Bank in Khilkhet area of the city on February 14, 2011. The convicts in RAB uniform picked Moin up in a microbus and forced him to step down from the vehicle at Matikata in the city without the money.
Later, Moin Uddin filed the case with Khilkhet Police Station.
Police later recovered Tk 12 lakh from the convicts and seized the microbus.
On May 30, 2011, police submitted the charge sheet of the case against seven people.
