Two ex-policemen, accomplice jailed in extortion case

A Dhaka court sentenced two former policemen and their accomplice to four years and six months in prison for snatching a mobile phone, cash, and threatening to implicate an Uber driver in a drug case. The convicts, former ASI Monirul Islam, constable SM Julfikar Ali, and Nuruddin Ahmed Sumon, had stopped the driver at Malibagh Intersection in 2019, planted Yaba tablets in his car, and demanded money, leading to their arrest and conviction.