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Arav Khan jailed for 10 years in arms case.

Arav Khan jailed for 10 years in arms case

Court of law

Daily Bangla Times: A Dhaka tribunal today (May 9) sentenced Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in an arms case. Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka's Special Tribunal-14 passed the verdict in his absence.

The court also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, of which he will have to serve three more months in jail. Earlier on May 7, a Dhaka court set May 9 for delivering the verdict in an arms case filed against notorious gold trader Arav Khan now based in Dubai.

Ten witnesses out of 20 have been examined in the case. Arav, a fugitive accused in the murder case of a police inspector, was arrested in Maghbazar on January 28, 2015, with a loaded revolver as he allegedly went there to threaten his father-in-law Sekendar Ali to extort money from him. Police later filed the case against him with the capital's Ramna Police Station. Investigation officer and detective branch (DB) of police sub-inspector Sheikh Hasan Muhammad Mostafa Sarwar on March 1, 2015, filed formal charge against him. On May 10, 2015, the court framed charges against Arav, but he managed to come out of jail after securing bail on March 14, 2018, in the case. The court on October 24, 2018, issued arrest warrant against Arav.