COURT CORRESPONDENT

A Dhaka

court

yesterday

sentenced

Jubo

Mohila

League’s

expelled leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon to three years and six months imprisonment in a case filed over amassing about Tk 6.24 crore illegally.

Judge Mohammad Abu Taher of the Special Judge’s Court-3 of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of the couple at the courtroom. The two were on bail.

Soon after the verdict, the judge cancelled their bail and ordered police to send them to jail with conviction warrant.

The judge also fined them Tk 5 lakh each, in default of which they will have to serve six months more in jail.

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