Three get 4 yrs' RI for attempt to grab house of journalist
Three people were sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment on Tuesday for an attempt to grab a house of former executive editor of the now-defunct Bangladesh Observer in May 2008.
First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan handed down the sentence at a packed courtroom.
The convicts are Shahjahan Mollah, Shahjahan Siraj and Enamul Haq Kajol. Of them, Shahjahan was present while two others were absent during delivery of the verdict.
The court cancelled bail of Shahjahan Mollah, now on bail, and ordered to send him to jail with a conviction warrant.
The three were convicted and sentenced for an attempt to grab a house of Abdur Rahim, making forged documents. The three were also accused of an attempt to sell the property of Rahim to a real estate company with a fake power of attorney.
The punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the court said.
Rahim who was present at the court, expressed his satisfaction with the verdict.
Rahim filed a fraud case against the three with Gulshan Police Station on May 5 in 2008 on charge of an attempt to grab his 12 kathas of land where he had been living for over four decades.
The investigation officer pressed charges against the three on November 10 in 2008. The court recorded statements of 11 prosecution witnesses including complainant of the case.
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