Dhaka, Oct. 28 -- Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, the former president of the Jubo League's Dhaka Metropolitan South unit, has been sentenced to life in prison for the illegal possession of a foreign pistol and ammunition for it.

Dhaka Special Tribunal Judge Md Ibrahim Mia delivered the verdict in the case under the Arms Act on Tuesday.

Shahadat Ali, the bench assistant for the court, said that the verdict was delivered after recording Samrat as absconding.

The life in prison sentence is the first verdict delivered among several cases pending against the former Jubo League leader.

Samrat went into hiding after an illegal casino operation was exposed during a RAB raid in Dhaka's Motijheel on Sept 18, 2019. On Oct 7 that year, RAB arre...