Mobile phone seized from a convict at Kashimpur jail

Kashimpur central jail authorities in Gazipur have seized a mobile phone set from Nur Hossain, a death-row convict in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, reports UNB.

The jail authorities have formed a three-member panel to probe the matter.

Nur Hossain, former Narayanganj City Corporation councillor, has been in jail since 2017 after he was sentenced to death in sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.

Jail superintendent of Kashimpur central jail-2 Abdul Jalil on Saturday said a three-member committee, headed by deputy superintendent of prisons Umme Salma, was formed to probe the incident.

There are three inmates, including Nur, 50, in the Kashimpur central Jail part-2 condemn cell. Tipped off, the jail authorities recovered a mobile phone set after searching the cell on 5 January, he said.

The other members of the committee are chief jailer Asadur Rahman and deputy jailer Nurul Mobin. The committee has been asked to submit its report by 11 January.

A court of Narayanganj on 16 January 2017 sentenced 26 people, including three sacked RAB officials and ex-city councillor Nur Hossain, to death and nine others to different jail terms in the two cases filed over the murder incident.