KUSHTIA: A court here sentenced a couple to life term imprisonment in a case filed under Narcotics Control Act.

The convicts-- Hobibor Rahman, 50 and his wife Josna Khatun, 42, residents of Khoddovaluka village under Kumarkhali upazila, were also fined Tk 50,000 each. They have to stay one more year behind the bars, in default.

Judge Arup Kumar Goswami of Kushtia District and Sessions Judge Court issued the order Monday (May 13).

Sources at the court said that a packet of 50gm heroin and a scales used for measuring the highly addictive drug were recovered in a drive carried out at the couple's residence on August 29, 2017.

The duo were accused in a case and handed over to Kumarkhali Police Station.

As the investigation in the case ended, police filed the charge-sheet to the court on December 10, 2017.

BDST: 1700 HRS, MAY 13, 2019
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