A court in Chapainawabganj yesterday sentenced two people to 22 years’ imprisonment in two cases filed over the recovery of firearms and drugs in Shibganj upazila in 2013.

The convicts are--Md Masud, 36, and Mostafa Kamal, 32, hailing from Rajshahi. According to the prosecution, a team of Shibganj Police Station searched a truck at Koylabari Truck Terminal in Shahbajpur union and recovered four pistols, eight magazines and 731 bottles of phensedyl syrup on April 23, 2013. Later, police arrested Masud and Kamal in connection with the recovery. After examining all the records ,  Judge Shawkat Ali of the Special Tribunal-2 handed down the verdict acquitting five other accused.