A Satkhira court sentenced former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib

A Satkhira court sentenced former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib and two others to 10 years' imprisonment in a case filed over the attack on a motorcade of the then-opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002. The court also sentenced 47 others to different jail terms in the case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Humayun Kabir delivered the verdict while 34 accused, out of 50, were present in the dock. Sixteen others accused of the case, including former councillor Abdul Kader Bacchu, are absconding.