Teenager jailed for mugging
A speedy trial court here on Sunday convicted a teenager and sentenced him to two years imprisonment for mugging. The convict was identified as Mohammad Azad, 15, son of Ashraf Ali of Bakarkanda village in Sadar upazila. The court also fined him Tk 1000, in default, to suffer three months more RI and ordered to send him to youth correction centre in Gazipur. According to the prosecution, Azad along with his two accomplices in a motorbike intercepted one Rafiqul Islam at Sapmari Uttarpara Road in Sadar upazila and snatched away Tk 9,500 from him at gunpoint on November 6, 2010. Hearing the cry for help locals after a hot chase caught Azad along with his bike and handed him over to police. Later, a case was filed against the trio.
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