A Barisal court on Wednesday sentenced a man to a life term of imprisonment for possessing heroin.
The court also fined him Tk10,000 and in default, he will have to serve three more months in jail.
The convict was Nasiruddin, alias Dallas Nasir, 35, son of the late Sattar Master from the Kawnia Branch Road area of the city.
Matiar Rahman, additional district and session’s judge of Barisal, handed down the verdict against Nasiruddin in absentia.
According to the prosecution, a team of Rapid Action Battalion-8 arrested Nasir in the area with 100 kilograms of heroin on July 17, 2012
