DHAKA : A RAB mobile court sentenced lawmaker Hazi Salim’s son Irfan Salim, also councilor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DCC) ward No-30, and body guard Mohammad Jahid Hossain to one year for possessing illegal liquor and walkie-talkies.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Legal and media wing director Lieutenant Colonel Ashik Billah told BSS that RAB’s Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam passed the order yesterday evening.

Earlier, the elite force conducted a raid at the Lalbag house of Hazi Salim, MP, of Dhaka-7 constituency, and arrested his son Irfan Salim, 37, and body guard Mohammad Jahid Hossain, 35, in connection with a case filed with Dhanmondi police station.

Lieutenant Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy filed a case against seven people, including Irfan Salim and his father’s bodyguard and five others, accusing them of assaulting him and his wife last evening. The navy officer was allegedly assaulted by a group of people, led by Irfan Salim, near Kalabagan crossing under Dhanmondi police station last evening after the car owned by lawmaker Hazi Salim hit his (navy officer’s) motorbike.

Lieutenant Wasif, in his complainant, said the car first hit the motorcycle while he was returning home with his wife after purchasing some books. As he tried to protest the incident some people got down from the car, assaulted him and knocked out his one tooth.
Later, the assaulters escaped the scene leaving the car behind as people started to gather around.