Kaladan News

15 Burmese Nationals Get four Years Imprisonment for Smuggling Rice

Cox’s Bazar, April 24: A court in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Thursday sentenced 15 Burmese nationals to four years in jail for smuggling rice, according to our reporter from Cox’s Bazar.

The special tribunal also fined them Taka 500 each. They will have to suffer another one-month’s imprisonment if they fail to pay.

According to the prosecution, the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)—Border Security Force--- arrested the Burmese citizens from bordering Shaphari Island, the southern side of Bangladesh, along with 1,150 bags of rice being smuggled from Burma on November 10, 2001.

Judge Ranjan Kumar Saha handed down the verdict and asked the district administration to send them back to their country on the expiry of their jail term. ##

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