DHAKA, May 09, 2023 (BSS) - A court here today handed down a 10-year prison term to controversial jewelry trader expatriate Robiul Islam alias Arav Khan in an arms case filed eight years ago while he is faced with several other charges including a murder case.

 Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Court-6 pronounced the verdict trying Arav in absentia, which also fined him 10,000 taka.

 The judge said, in default, the convict will have to languish another three months in jail.

Earlier on May 7, the court fixed today for the verdict in the arms case following a hearing of both the state and the defendant.

According to the case statement, on January 28, 2015, Arav was arrested in front of his in-laws house in Moghbazar area in the capital with a loaded revolver.

He reportedly extorted a hefty sum of money from his father-in law Sekandar Ali. 

Sujan Kumar Kundu, the then SI of Vehicle Theft Prevention team of DB police, filed the arms case against him with Ramna Thana.

Charge sheet was pressed against him on March 1, 2015.

However, Arav absconded, soon after securing bail on March 14, 2018. On October 24, 2018, the court issued an arrest warrant against him.

On the night of March 23 this year, his name was found on the red notice list on the Interpol website.