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Chittagong BCL leader gets two years in jail for carrying firearm during UP polls
A leader of the ruling Awami League’s student wing in Chittagong has been sentenced to two years in prison for carrying firearms during the Union Parishad polls.
Published : 8 May 2016, 07:25 AM
Updated : 8 May 2016, 08:32 AM
Nurul Azim Rony, Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) general secretary for the Chittagong metro unit, was held outside a polling centre in Hathazari Upazila on Saturday.
Local police OC Md Ismail said Rony has been handed over to the prison authorities on Sunday morning to serve his sentence for violating the electoral code.
“He has been also been booked under the Arms Act,” said the police officer.
Rony was arrested with a pistol, ammunition, stamps and Tk 26,000 in cash by a mobile court in front of a voting centre at the Mirzapur Union.
Locals said the Awami League chairman aspirant for the union council Nurul Absar happens to be Rony’s relative.
On the night of Thursday, an Awami League activist was shot dead in Mirzapur, when the official poll campaign period ended.
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