Drug peddler’s jail term reduced

Manama : The Supreme Appeals Court has reduced the jail term issued against an Asian man implicated in a drug peddling case.

The Bangladeshi defendant was earlier sentenced to five years, but judges at the appeals court cut it to three years.

The defendant was apprehended after a tip-off to the police revealed that he was selling drugs. He was caught in a sting-operation trying to hand narcotic pills to an undercover agent.

The man told police officers that he was receiving the drugs from another man, and he offered his help to arrest him. He contacted him upon the approval of police officers, and requested to buy the same type of narcotic pills from him for BD100.

The pair met in Daih, and the anti-drugs squad pounced on the other man as soon as he gave the defendant the pills.

The Bangladeshi man was earlier fined BD3000 for his crime and was ordered to be deported from the Kingdom once he completes his prison term.