253 more Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) jawans jailed for mutiny,Bangladesh

BANGLADESH NEWS

A special court of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday sentenced 253 jawans of BGB Hospital Unit of 36 Battalion to different terms of rigorous imprisonment between four months and seven years in a mutiny case for their involvement in the February 2009 mutiny at Pilkhana headquarters.

A three member Special Court-10, led by Col Khandaker Obaidul Ahsan, also fined each of the convicts Tk 100 and acquitted two others as charges levelled against them were not proved.

Of the convicts, 34 jawans were sentenced to seven years, 15 to six years, 11 to five years, 10 to four years, 38 to three years, two to two years and six months, 111 to two years, 26 to one years and six to four months.

The court which continued for nearly two-and-a-half-hour starting from 10:00am also exonerated an accused, who died during the trial, from the charges.

Lt Col Mohammad Ayub and Maj ANN Fazlul Alam are the two other members of the court.