Two drug peddlers jailed
A court here on Sunday sentenced two people to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for possessing heroin. The convicts are Jesmin Begum, 38, wife of Mostafa Sheikh and Almas Mallik, son of Soleman Mollik of Rono Bijoypur village in Sadar upazila. The court also fined the convicts Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year RI more. According to the prosecution, a team of Sadar police in a drive arrested the two along with 50 grams of heroin from their village on May 19, 2007. Later, SI Nurul Huda filed a case against them under Narcotics Control Act.
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