Truck driver, helper get life for yaba sale in Ctg
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
CHATTOGRAM, July 25, 2023 (BSS): A Chattogram court has sentenced life term imprisonment to a truck driver and its helper for doing drug business in 2021.
The court of Chattogram 2nd Additional District and Sessions Judge Sarwar Alam gave the verdict on Tuesday.
The convicts are truck driver Masum Mia (35) and its helper Md Alom Hossain, (23).
The court also fined them Tk 20, 000, in default; they will have to suffer more one year imprisonment.
According to the prosecution story, acting on a tip-off a team of Patiya thana police detained the drug trader truck driver Masum Mia and its helper Md Alom Hossain with 48,000 pieces of Yaba from Bypass crossing of Patiya Sadar area under Patiya thana on July 24, 2021.
Police also seized a Dhaka-bound salt laden truck which was used for trading drug.
A case was filed with Patiya thana against the alleged drug trader on the same day.
Police submitted the charge sheet before the court on December 12 in 2021 while the court framed charges against him on April 4, 2022.
The court announced the verdict in presence of convicted truck driver and its helper after examining a total of eight prosecution witnesses, out of 12.