A tribunal in Khulna yesterday sentenced four people to life term imprisonment in a case filed for possessing drug, reports UNB.

The convicts are Mohsin Sardar, son of Mozammel Sardar, Rabiul Islam, son of Abdul Malek in Debhata upazila of the district, Tayab Ali Sheikh, son of Intaz Sheikh, and Niamul Bihara, son of Idrish Bihar of Dakhkhin Bagmara of Rupsha upazila in the same district.

The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, a team of Narcotics Control Department of Khunla zone in a drive arrested the four accused along with 158 bottles of Phensidyl from Rupsha ghat in the city on December 14, 2011.

Inspector of the department M Farhad Hossain filed a case against them.

On January 15, 2012, Farhad Hossain, also investigation officer of the case, submitted a charge-sheet against them to a court.