Fake magistrate among nine jailed

Metropolitan Magistrate Towfiqul Alam of the Speedy Trial Court-4 handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts at a packed courtroom.

The convicts are fake magistrate Saiful Alam Bhuiyan, Alamgir Hossain, ABM Azizul Hakim, MM Moslehuddin, Minhazur Rahman Khan, Akkas Ali alias Babul, Mohammad Momin, Manik Miah and Ali Ashraf alias Palash.

Earlier, the prosecution and the defence completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 13 prosecution witnesses.

According to the prosecution, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the fake mobile court team at Mirpur Mazar Road in the city on March 11.

The fake mobile court team led by Saiful Alam Bhuiyan, claiming himself to be a magistrate, raided Mongal Bakery at around 1:00pm and charged Tk 1 lakh fine for lack of necessary legal documents and unhygienic environment.

As the amount was reduced to only Tk 1 thousand upon request and there were no police and BDR officials in the team, suspicious employees of the bakery informed the Rab-4 team.

The Rab team rushed to the spot and captured all the nine frauds red-handed and also seized their microbus. Rab also recovered a camera, a mini cassette player and Tk 1000 from the microbus.

A case under the Speedy Trial (Law and Order Disruption) Act was filed against them with Mirpur Police Station the same day.