Nur Hossain, who was previously sentenced to death in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, has now been handed life imprisonment in an arms case.
Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Begum Sabina Yasmin gave the verdict in the presence of Nur Hossain, a former Narayanganj city councillor, after hearing the testimony of six people on Wednesday, said Md Asadujjaman, the court inspector.
Nur was sentenced to death in an arms case filed with Siddhirganj police station, and was acquitted in an extortion case on the same day, Asadujjaman said.
Additional Public Prosecutor Jasmeen Ahmed said police filed the arms case against Nur after recovering weapons from the side of a railway line.
Meanwhile, the other case was filed over the extortion of Tk4 lakh from a person named Akram, Jasmeen mentioned.
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According to court sources, a murder case was filed against Nur Hossain with Fatullah Model police station on April 28, 2014 in connection with the murder of seven people in Narayanganj.
Due to the case, the then Narayanganj deputy commissioner declared the licences of all firearms registered under the names of Nur Hossain and his associates to be null and void on May 5, 2014, and ordered police to confiscate the firearms and ammunition.
Police seized firearms and ammunition from Nur Hossain's associates, but an NPB pistol and a 22 bore rifle were not found. Later on August 1, 2014, police recovered Nur Hossain's NPB pistol from the Malibagh Bazar rail crossing in Dhaka. The next day, police filed a case under the Arms Act with the Railway police station.
On August 3, police filed another case under the Arms Act against Nur with Siddhirganj police station, for illegally keeping the two firearms in his possession rather than handing them over to police.
The seven-murder verdict
On January 16, 2017, a Narayanganj court sentenced 26 people, including Nur Hossain and three former RAB officials, to death in a case filed over the abduction and murder of Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam, lawyer Chandan Sarkar and five others.
Nur has been in jail since then.
