15 Myanmar nationals get four years for smuggling rice

The special tribunal also fined them Tk 500 each. They will have to suffer another one month's imprisonment if they fail to pay.

According to the prosecution, the Bangladesh Rifles arrested the Myanmar citizens from bordering Shahpari island along with 1,150 bags of rice being smuggled from Myanmar on November 10, 2001.

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Judge Ranjan Kumar Saha handed down the verdict and asked the district administration to send them back to their country on the expiry of their jail term.