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| 4 Huji cadres jailed for 20yrs for keeping explosives |
| 2008-06-18 |
| Four Harkatul Jihad (Huji) cadres were sentenced to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) in an explosives case in Magura yesterday. The special tribunal court also fined them Tk 5,000 each, defaulting on which will earn them additional one-year RI. The sentenced are Mokaddes Ali, ameer of Magura district unit Khelafat Majlish, its general secretary Bakibillah, Khalilur Rahman and Rafikul Islam Sabuj. Earlier on June 10, the four Huji men were given 20 years' RI for possessing illegal arms. According to the prosecution, Rab arrested Huji activists Mokaddes and Bakibillah, working incognito, on October 29 last year in Mohammadpur upazila following information given by its detained chief Mufti Abdul Hannan. On their confession, the law enforcers later dug out two Chinese rifles, 86 rounds of bullet, two bombs, two sets of military uniform and a huge cache of explosives from a field in the upazila. Two days later two cases were filed against them with Mohammadpur Police Station under the Arms Act and the Explosive Substances Act in which the two other Huji activists were also implicated. |
| Posted by:Fred |