BAGERHAT, Jan 14: A court here on Wednesday sentenced 34 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat including district BNP general secretary Ali Reza Babu to three years' imprisonment in two separate cases filed under Speedy Trial Act.
Senior Judicial Magistrate of Bagerhat M Jahidul Azad also fined the convicts Tk 5,000 each, in default, to serve three more months in jail.
Twenty-two convicts were present on the dock during the delivery of the verdict.
According to the prosecution, two cases have been filed with Bagerhat Model Thana, accusing 207 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat for vandalising Gotapara union Awami League office and damaging the Prime Minister's picture on October 20, 2013 and attacking the houses of AL workers at Ku-koramara village under Bishnupur union on August 10.