Ex-minister Dulu gets 12 yrs RI in explosives case
Friday, 24 August 2007
NATORE, Aug 23 (UNB): A special tribunal here Thursday sentenced former deputy minister for land Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu to 12 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) and 82 others, including 15 family members of Dulu, to 10 years in jail in an explosives case.
Dulu was also fined Tk 50,000 and the other 82 convicts fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer another two years RI.
According to prosecution, the accused at the directive of Dulu looted and set ablaze by using gunpowder 47 houses and shops at Ramsha Kazipur Shahpara village and Amtali Bazar of Naldanga thana on February 7 and 10 in 2004.
One of the affected, Asaduzzaman, of Ramsha Kazipur Shahpara village, on February 25 this year filed a case against 105 people, including Dulu.
As police found the `alamat' of the use of gunpowder during the arson attack, they submitted two separate charge sheets against 94 people for arson, looting under the Explosives Act.
After examining records and witnesses, Judge Mirza Abdur Rouf of the Women and Child Repression (Prevention) special tribunal handed down the verdict against Dulu and 82 others.
The court, however, acquitted 11 other accused, as charges against them could not be proved.
Of the total 94 accused, 31, including Dulu, were present on the dock Thursday.
Earlier, a court here on July 26 sentenced Dulu and his brother Atiqur Rahman to eight years in jail and 87 others to seven years rigorous imprisonment in another arson and looting case.
Dulu was also fined Tk 50,000 and the other 82 convicts fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer another two years RI.
According to prosecution, the accused at the directive of Dulu looted and set ablaze by using gunpowder 47 houses and shops at Ramsha Kazipur Shahpara village and Amtali Bazar of Naldanga thana on February 7 and 10 in 2004.
One of the affected, Asaduzzaman, of Ramsha Kazipur Shahpara village, on February 25 this year filed a case against 105 people, including Dulu.
As police found the `alamat' of the use of gunpowder during the arson attack, they submitted two separate charge sheets against 94 people for arson, looting under the Explosives Act.
After examining records and witnesses, Judge Mirza Abdur Rouf of the Women and Child Repression (Prevention) special tribunal handed down the verdict against Dulu and 82 others.
The court, however, acquitted 11 other accused, as charges against them could not be proved.
Of the total 94 accused, 31, including Dulu, were present on the dock Thursday.
Earlier, a court here on July 26 sentenced Dulu and his brother Atiqur Rahman to eight years in jail and 87 others to seven years rigorous imprisonment in another arson and looting case.