Laxmipur:
A mobile court has been sentenced to imprisonment for 8 fishermen for hunting fishes including jatka in the Meghna river in Kamalnagar, Lakshmipur, and the illegal nets seized have been set on fire.
On Saturday (March 25) at 10 o'clock in the night, Kamalnagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) and Executive Magistrate of Mobile Court Mohammad Masudur Rahman Molla ordered each of them to be jailed for 15 days.
The convicts are Md. Ulyah, Yusuf, Sohag, Ripon, Murad, Ibrahim, Saiful, Jasim, all are residents of Char Kalkini Uniiton of the upazila.
Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) of Kamalnagar Police Station. Jahangir said, from afternoon to evening, the Batirghat and Motirhat areas of Meghna river, the Coast Guard, Fisheries Department and Police arrested 8 fishermen in the operation. When they were produced in the mobile court at night, the judge ordered each of them to be imprisoned for 15 days.
Incidentally, the government has banned all types of fishing in the 100 km area of Meghna river from Shatanal in Chandpur to Ramgati in Laxmipur. If this law is followed, there is a provision to punish jail-fine or two.