27 mutineers sentenced to jail in Khulna
Twenty-seven jawans of 23 Battalion of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were yesterday sentenced to jail terms ranging from four months to seven years for their involvement in the mutiny at Khulna sector headquarters on February 25 and 26 in 2009.
The special court-12 headed by Rajshahi BGB Sector Commander Col Ehia Azam Khan delivered the judgment at 11:30am.
Two other members of the court were Lt Col Gazi Mohammad Khalid Hossain and Lt Commander Md Touhidul Islam. Deputy Attorney General Shashanka Shekhar Sarker was present.
Of the jawans, two were jailed for seven years, two for six years, , two for four years, six for three years, three for two and a half years, two for one and a half years, four for one year, three for four months, and one was jailed for six months, one for five years and another for two years.
The court, set up at the sector headquarters at Goalkhali in the city, also fined the convicts Tk 100 each.
According to the prosecution, 27 jawans revolted against their officers at the sector headquarters on February 25 and 26 in 2009, looted arms and ammunition from armoury, put up barricades at several points of Khulna-Jessore highway and damaged a number of vehicles.
Lance Naik Abdus Salam Majhi of 23 Battalion at the Sector headquarters filed the mutiny case as complainant with the special court-12 against the rebels on October 25 last year.
Charges against the accused were framed in the court on March 27 this year while depositions of 20 prosecution witnesses recorded during trial of the mutiny case.
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