First woman in Bangladesh gets death sentence in drug case
PBC News: A Gaibandha court on Thursday pronounced death sentence against a woman under the Narcotics Control Act for smuggling out 500grams of heroin.
The condemned convict Parvin Begum Shaila, wife of Masir Uddin, is from Bardhankuthi area in Gobindaganj municipality.
At the same time, the court also fined the woman Tk 1 lakh. She is the first woman in the country who has received death sentence in a drug case.
District and Sessions Court judge Dilip Kumar Bhowmik pronounced the judgment in presence of the convict, said Faruq Ahmed Prince, public prosecutor of the court.
The court also acquitted four other accused–Sohag Hasan, Bipul Mia, Ramzan Ali, and Saju Mia. All them are hailed from Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur district.
According to the case statement, police conducted search in a Bogura-bound passenger bus from Dinajpur at Katabari area in Gobindaganj on December 8, 2018. At that time, police seized 500 grams of heroin from the vanity bag of Parveen Begum who was on board the bus and arrested her.
