A court in Dhaka has sentenced three Myanmar nationals to ten years in jail in an explosives case.
The convicts with suspected links to Islamist militant outfits were arrested from Dhaka’s Lalbagh in 2014 in possession of explosives.
On Sunday (Apr 28), Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal-4 Judge Md Rabiul Alam announced the verdict convicting Mohammad Nur Hossain alias Rafiqul Islam, 26, Yasir Arafat, 22, and Omar Karim, 25.
The judge imposed an additional six months to the jail terms due to the convicts’ failure to pay a fine of Tk 10,000 each, Assistant Public Prosecutor of the court Mohamma Salahuddin told Bangla Tribune.
According to the case documents, Nur and Arafat were arrested on Nov 30, 2014, from Etimkhana road area near Sir Salimullah Muslim Orphanage in Azimpur of Lalbagh and four others including Karim managed to flee the scene.
Police found explosives substances like Potassium Chloride and Arsenic Disulfide from their possessions at that time.
They are members of militant outfits like Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), Global Rohingya Centre (GRC) and Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) and gathered there to commit subversive acts.
The next day, Sub-inspector of Detective Branch (BD) SM Raisul Islam filed the case with the city’s Lalbagh police.
Later, police arrested Omar.
On Mar 3, 2015, DB Sub-inspector Abdul Qader pressed charges against the trio and the court framed them on Jul 12 of the same year.