National Desk :
A mobile court in a drive today arrested 10 fishermen from the Meghna River in the district and sentenced them to one year imprisonment each for defying the government’s ongoing 22-day ban on Hilsha fishing, catching, selling, transporting and marketing.
The convicted fishermen were identified as Nasir Hossain,30, Shafiqul Islam,20, Abdus Sukkur Gazi,20, Kokhan Bepari,23, Faruk Darji,30, and Monir Hawlader ,20, of Lalpur and Kherudia areas of Bishnapur union of Chandpur Sadar upazila. Md. Faruk Khan, 32, Md. Nasir, 29, Awal Hawladar,63 and Golam Md. Russell,23.
According to the district fisheries office, two engine-driven boats and one lakh meters of banned current nets were seized from their possession.
Sadar upazila assistant commissioner (Land) and executive magistrate Helal Uddin Chowdhury conducted the mobile this morning.
