Attack on Hasina’s motorcade: former BNP MP, 2 others get 10 years’ imprisonment UNB, Satkhira UNB, Satkhira
A Satkhira court today sentenced former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib and two others to 10 years imprisonment in a case filed over the attack on a motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.
The court also sentenced 47 others to different jail terms in the case.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Humayun Kabir delivered the verdict while 34 accused, out of 50, were present in the dock.
Sixteen others accused of the case, including former councillor Abdul Kader Bacchu, are absconding.
Sheikh Hasina’s convoy attack: Ex-BNP MP among 50 jailed in Satkhira
A Satkhira court has jailed 50 people, including former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, for varying terms in a case filed over the 2002 attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s convoy in Kolaroa.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Humayun Kabir delivered the verdict while 34 accused out of 50 were present in the dock.
All of the accused are activists and workers of the BNP, with the former MP and two others facing 10 years in prison.
On January 27, the court fixed February 4 for delivering its judgment in the case.
The convicts also include Kalaroa’s former mayor Akhtarul Islam, Satkhira Bar Association’s former general secretary advocate Abdus Sattar, advocate of Supreme Court Abdus Samad, three former UP chairmen Ashraf Hossain, Rakibul Islam and Rabiul Islam and other activists of BNP.