A Bagerhat court has sentenced five members of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to different terms of imprisonment in a case filed for carrying out sabotage activities.
Bagerhat Additional Judicial Magistrate Md Atikus Samad passed the order on Wednesday in the presence of the convicts at the courtroom. The court also fined the convict Tk 10,000 each.
The convicts Md Morshed Alam, Md Saiful Islam, Md Zahirul Islam and Md Maqsudur Rahman were sentenced to six years' imprisonment while Tariqul Islam was jailed for five years.
They are all from Satkhira, Pirojpur and Bagerhat districts.
According to the case statement, the JMB men took position in Gobar Dia area adjacent to Daratana Bridge of the district on November 3, 2016, to carry out sabotage activities.
When police went to the spot, the JMB members threw bombs at the law enforcers, forcing them to fire back.
Later, police arrested four people along with shotgun shells.
After the investigation, police filed a charge sheet in the court on May 2, 2019, accusing five people.
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