A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced an operative of the banned outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment over a case of serial bomb blasts.
Special Tribunal-10 judge Masud Parvez, passed the verdict in presence of the convict Rezaul Karim Reza in the case of exploding bombs in front of Hotel Sheraton in the capital on 17 August 2005.
The court also fined Reza 5,000 taka, in default, to suffer three more months in jail.
It acquitted three other accused - Enayet Ullah, Tarek Iqbal and Abdullah-Al Fattah - as charges brought against them were not proved.
Law enforcers arrested Reza and three others on August 20, 2005, three days after the blast.
A time bomb was exploded in front of Hotel Sheraton on August 17, 2005, as part of the serial blasts in 63 districts of the country except Munshiganj.
