13 get 4yrs in jail over Nasirnagar communal attack

UNB :
A Brahmanbaria court on Thursday sentenced 13 people, including a former union parishad chairman, to four years in prison in a case filed over the torching of a Hindu temple as an act of communal violence in Nasirnagar upazila of the district around five years back.
Brahmanbaria Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Masud Parvez also fined them
Tk2,000 each, Didarul Alam, inspector of the court, said.
The convicts – local Awami League leader and former UP chairman Dewan Atikur Rahman Akhi, Md Mokhles Miah, Md Mofizul Hoque, Khasrul Miah, Nazir Rahman, Md Mahfuz Miah, Idu Miah, Sheikh Md Abdul Ahad, Saiham Rabbi Shyam, Mir Kashem, Anis Miah, Tabarak Reza, and Sajeeb Chowdhury – are from different areas of Nasirnagar.
Eight of them were present in the court when the judgment was delivered.