Drug peddlers jailed
A tribunal here on Sunday sentenced two drug peddlers to 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for possessing drugs. Convicts Shahinur Rahman and Nabisuddin of Benapole were also fined Tk 25,000 each, in default, to suffer six months more RI. Nabisuddin was tried in absentia. According to the prosecution story, a team of Rab held the two drug peddlers from Biloba Bari Miazir Hall on the outskirts of the city and recovered 756 bottles of phensidyl syrup from their possession on March 10 last year.
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