Yaba factory inside Ctg house: 3 sentenced to 20yrs in jail

A Chattogram court today (October 17, 2022) sentenced three people, including a woman, to 20 years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed with Double Mooring police station for turning their house into a yaba factory in the city's Beparipara area in 2017.

In the same case, the court also sentenced another person to six years in jail, reports our Chattogram staff correspondent.

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Nargis Akhter, judge of 5th additional metropolitan session judge's court, handed down the verdict after the court found them guilty beyond doubt crossing all the records and witnesses.

The convicts are Shaymal Majumdar, Md Mamum Hossen alias Mamun, Md Ayesha Siddique and Abdullah Al Aman. Among them Shaymal, Mamun and Ayesha were awarded 20 years of jail while Aman was sentenced to six-year of jail, said bench assistant of the court Farid Ahmed.

Farid told The Daily Star that the court awarded 14 years of jail to the trio under Narcotics Control Act -1990's section 1990 (1) and fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default of which they have to suffer six more months in jail.

The court also sentenced them to six years more under section 20 of Narcotics Control Act 1990 and fined Tk 5,000 each, in default, to suffer three months more in jail, said Farid.

Aman was fined Tk 5,000, in default, to languish, three months more in jail," he added.

According to the case statement the members of Detectives of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) had busted a yaba factory and arrested four persons including the woman from a flat in Chittagong city's Beparipara area under Double Mooring Police station on December 27, 2017.

During the drive, 2.5 lakh yaba pills, raw materials enough to make around 10 lakh yaba pills, two yaba-making machines and four moulds were recovered from the flat.

Later, Inspector Md Kamruzzaman filed a case accusing the four with the double mooring police station in the following day. Police later pressed charges in this case implicating the four.