The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Kishoreganj

A tribunal here on Tuesday convicted a man in absentia and sentenced him to 14 years rigorous imprisonment for abducting his neighbour's son in 2002.

The court also fined the convict M Abu Saleh, 30, Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer three months more in jail. According to the prosecution, Abu Saleh, private tutor of Mashiur Alam Shovan, 12, son of Shahidul Alam of Jamalpur village of Bhairab upazila, abducted Shovan on November 8, 2008. Police after a hectic search rescued Shovan from Abu Saleh's aunt's house at Bubunti village in Brahmanbaria district a day after his abduction.

After examining the records and witnesses the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge GMS Farid awarded the punishment.