3 to die for Phensedyl trafficking in Jessore

A Jessore court has sentenced three people to death for trafficking Phensedyl in a 2019 case filed against them, with two of them tried in absentia, reports bdnews.

Judge Mostafa Kamal of the Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court-1 and the Special Tribunal-2 declared the verdict in the case on Tuesday against Abul Kalam, Abdul Quddus, and Golam Maola.

Earlier, the Supreme Court on February 1 imposed a ban on transporting Phensedyl declaring it as a drug.

Of the three convicts, only Abul Kalam is in custody now.

According to the case documents, members of the RAB-6 Jashore Camp detained a covered van in front of the Gulf Filling Station on the Jashore-Benapole Road on Oct 10, 2009. A search of the van led to the recovery of 12 boxes filled with 2,246 bottles of Indian Phensedyl. Three suspects were then detained.

RAB DAD Afzal Hossain filed a case at Kotowali Police Station against the three detainees.

Mahfuzul Haq, an SI with the police station, submitted charges against the three suspects on Jun 30 of that year, said Abu Selim Rana, additional public prosecutor.

Each of the suspects has also been fined Tk 50,000 in the decision, Rana said.