Nilphamari court sentences man to death for counterfeit currency

A man in Nilphamari has been given the death penalty in a case involving counterfeit currency notes.

Nilphamari Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 4 May 2016, 10:59 AM
Updated : 4 May 2016, 11:01 AM

Forty seven-year-old Badshah Dhali was arrested on Jul 7, 2014 at a house at Syedpur town while making fake currencies.

The case details say counterfeit currency notes as well as equipment to make those were found with Dhali.

Police booked him under the 1974 Special Powers Act.

The court of Nilphamari’s District and Sessions Judge delivered the verdict on Wednesday in the presence of the convict.

Additional Public Prosecutor Azizul Islam Pramanik said the case was filed under the Act’s Sections 25 (a) and (b) of, which keeps the provision of death sentence as the maximum penalty.