A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced former home minister and BNP’s Vice Chairman, Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Major (retd) Md Hafizuddin Ahmed and Major (retd) Md Hanif to jail for 21 months in a sabotage case filed with Gulshan police in Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury pronounced the judgement, BNP lawyer Zia Uddin Zia confirmed.
They were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment under one section of the case. In another section, they were jailed to one and a half years imprisonment and fined Tk 5,000 each; in default, they will have to suffer one month more in jail.
The court also sentenced five activists of BNP to three and a half years in jail in the same case.
They are: MA Awal Khan, Md Russel, Moinul Islam, Babul Hossain alias Babul, and Alamgir Hossain alias Raju.
Meanwhile, 11 accused were acquitted as the charges against them were not proved.
According to the case statement, the accused held an illegal rally in Mohakhali, Dhaka and obstructed police from conducting their duties on June 4, 2011.
They also attacked policemen, vandalised and torched the vehicles.
Later on April 29, 2014, Kamrul Hasan Talukdar, sub-inspector (SI) of Gulshan police station, submitted charge sheet in the case.
The court on April 25, 2022, framed charges, initiating the trial officially.
