Convicted for life
According to a news item from Satkhira [DS, April 6], a young man and his younger sister were sentenced to suffer RI for life as they were found with 60 bottles of Phensidyl. No doubt, such punishments will deter other aspirants in the trade. However, out of curiosity, I would like to know about their age, network and volume of their business, vis-Ã
-vis their real source of livelihood. As we know, thousands of such bottles were recovered in the past and Phensidyl is being consumed by our youth quite unabatedly, destroying the future of many families. I would like to know about the punishments so far pronounced in larger hauls. Were the convicts (of this case) the masterminds or chief operators or mere distributors/suppliers?
I think, for the sake of transparency, these details should be made public. Otherwise, it may appear that punishment is for the poor people only.
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