A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced ten Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders and activists to three years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) and fined them Tk 10,000 each for obstructing buying and dropping of tender schedules for jobs worth around Tk 450 crore. The case was filed against them with Motijheel Police Station for preventing participants from bidding in a tender at the Construction Maintenance Management Unit (CMMU) of the health ministry on July 30 last year.The convicts are Imtiazur Rahman Prokash, Sahabur Rahman, Humayun Kabir, Mofizur Rahman alias Akash, F Kabir Khan Shilpi, Sajjad Hossain Robin, Shariful Islam Sabuj, Sajedul Islam Rumon, Abu Bakar Siddiq Sathi and Asaduzzaman alias Asad. Sahabur Rahman, Mofizur Rahman and Sajjad Hossain were tried in absentia.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali Reza of Speedy Trial Court-6 handed down the sentence in presence of eight accused at a packed courtroom. The court acquitted accused AKM Azad alias Swadhin as the charges brought against him were not proved. The court fined the convicts Tk 10,000 each and if they fail to pay the amount they will have to serve three-month more RI.
Following the verdict, the court ordered sending the seven convict, who were on bail, to jail after cancelling their bails. The punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the court added.