A Dhaka court yesterday ordered 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for the outlawed JMB’s explosives expert Jahidul Islam Mizan alias Boma Mizan, who has been a fugitive since February, in a case filed for possessing explosives.
Dhaka’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan also sentenced Mizan’s wife Halima Begum alias Sharmin to a five year imprisonment in the same case filed for possessing grenades and explosives.
In the other case lodged under Arms Act over the same incident, the couple was sentenced to 37 years of imprisonment on June 3, 2012.
RAB arrested Mizan and his wife from Mirpur on May 15, 2009 and recovered arms and a huge amount of explosives from their house in East Monipuri Para of Mirpur.
During the order yesterday afternoon, Halima was present at the court. Mizan and two of his fellows were snatched from a prison van in Mymensingh on February 23.
Hailing from Shekhervita village under Jamalpur sadar upazila, Mizan is accused in 19 cases filed with different police stations. He was given 30 years of jail time in the Mymensingh cinema hall explosions case, 20 years for illegal possession of explosives and lifetime rigorous imprisonment in another case.
According to the case, elite force RAB arrested Mizan, an explosives expert of the outlawed Islamist group, and his wife at a house in North Pirerbagh in the city’s Mirpur area. After searching another house at East Monipuri Para, RAB sized a huge amount of gun powder and explosives.
The following day, RAB’s Deputy Assistant Director Md Abdur Rahim filed two cases with Mirpur police station – one under the Explosives Act and the other for possessing arms illegally.
The investigation officer of the case, Md Moshiur Rahman, pressed charges on June 15, 2009 accusing the duo while the court indicted them on January 28, 2010.
