Judge Sarker Abul Mansur Ahmed of the Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression-3 sentenced a 55-year-old man to life in jail for trafficking two children and a woman on August 17,1996.

The convict, Mohammad Shahabuddin was present when the judge read out the verdict at a jam-packed courtroom.

Saleha Khatun, 30, Shaon, 6 and Sajib, 5 were the people who were trafficked.

The tribunal, however, acquitted two other women, Nurjahan Begum and Bhanu alias Nur Bhanu, as the charges brought against them were not proved.

Earlier, the prosecution and defence completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 10 prosecution witnesses.

In the case filed with Kotwali Police Station, Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman alleged that Shahabuddin with the connivance of two other women lured his wife Saleha Khatun and son Shaon and brother-in-law Sajib to Dubai by the prospect of job.

He first took them to a house at Nakhalpara in Dhaka and later to Mumbai via Kolkata. From there, the brokers took them over and sent them to Dubai, where they were abused as camel jockeys. Later, the high commissions of the two countries concerned helped recover the victims.

Special Public Prosecutor Sakhawat Ullah Khan appeared for the state while Advocate Nazrul Islam defended the accused.

In a separate case, Judge Kanis Akhter Nasrina Khanam of the Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression-4 sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment for trafficking a woman and her two and a half-year-old baby boy.

Anguri Begum, 22 and her son Alamgir were identified to be the victims.

The tribunal delivered the judgment in presence of the convicts Ainal Bhuiyan and Abdul Haq Bhuiyan.It, however, acquitted Hossain Ali of the charge.

Earlier, the prosecution and the defence completed their arguments and the tribunal recorded statements of 12 prosecution witnesses.

Anguri's brother Mohammad Shamsuddin filed a case with Nawabganj Police Station on April 24,2002,under women and children repression laws.

In the case, he alleged that Ainal and Abdul Haq with the help of his sister Anguri's husband Mohammad Hossain Ali trafficked his sister and nephew out of the country in July 1997.

The investigation officer pressed charges against the three on November 25,2002.

Special Public Prosecutor Akhteruzzaman was the counsel for the prosecution while Mohammad Shahajahan Biswas was for the defence.