Papia, husband sentenced to 27 years in arms case

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman have been sentenced to 27 years' rigorous imprisonment in an arms case.

Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Special Tribunal-1 of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of the couple at a packed courtroom today.

The judge on September 27 set the date for delivering the verdict in the case on completion of the trial within nine working days. The same tribunal framed charges against the couple in the case on August 23.

A team of Rab arrested Papia and her husband -- a former Chhatra League leader -- and their two accomplices from Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on February 22 when they were trying to leave the country.

The following morning, Rab raided the house of Papia at Indira Road in Farmgate and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of liquor, Tk 58,41,000 cash, credit and debit cards of different banks.

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