A court in Chuadanga has sentenced a man to life imprisonment in a narcotics control case filed over the seizure of 101 buprenorphine injections. Md Jalal Malitha, 51, was also fined Tk 5,000, or one more month of rigorous imprisonment if he does not pay.
Shimul Kumar Biswas, judge (district and sessions judge) of Chuadanga’s Special Court of Sessions and Family Appellate court, delivered the verdict on Wednesday (4 November).
The convict, Md Jalal Malitha, lives in the Kanapukur Para area of Chuadanga Sadar upazila.
According to the case details, a team from the Department of Narcotics Control raided Kanapukur Para, on the road from Academy crossing to Alamdanga in Chuadanga Sadar police station area (west of Matin Medical Centre), on 13 October 2021. Acting on a tip-off, the raid was led by assistant commissioner and executive magistrate Md Habibur Rahman, and Jalal Malitha was detained. A search of a bag he was carrying found 101 buprenorphine injections wrapped in polythene.
Md Abdullah Al Mamun, then an inspector at the Chuadanga district office of the Department of Narcotics Control, filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act at Chuadanga Sadar police station. After investigating, police submitted a charge sheet to the court. The court gave its verdict after a long trial and the hearing of evidence.
Confirming the verdict, public prosecutor Advocate Shamim Reza Dalim said the court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment and a fine as the charge was proved. The accused was not present in court when the verdict was delivered. He will be brought under the law later to serve the sentence, the prosecutor said.
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