<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced Mohammad Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan, a Dubai-based gold dealer, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in an arms case filed in January 2015.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka Metro Special Tribunal-14 passed the order this noon, in absence of Arav Khan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, Arav Khan was sentenced to a fine of Tk 10,000, in default of which he will have to serve another three months' imprisonment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) AKM Salahuddin confirmed the development.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, on March 28, the court heard the testimonies of 10, out of 20, witnesses. Arav Khan could not claim his innocence as he was absconding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the prosecution, Arav Khan was arrested in January 2015, with a loaded revolver from Dhaka's Moghbazar area as he went to his father-in-law Sekendar Ali’s house to collect money at gunpoint.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the same day, Sujan Kumar Kundu, the then Sub-inspector of DB West's Car Theft Prevention and Rescue Team, filed a case against Arav Khan with Ramna Model Police Station under arms act.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">DB Police Sub-inspector Sheikh Hasan Mohammad Mostafa Sarwar, also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Arav Khan to the court on March 1, 2015. The tribunal framed charges against him on May 10.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He was granted bail in the case on March 14, 2018. The court issued an arrest warrant against Arav Khan on October 24, 2018 declaring him as "fugitive". UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>