DHAKA, Sept 11, 2025 (BSS) - A tribunal here today convicted and sentenced a worker, Saddam Hossain alias Mukul alias Mokbul, to life imprisonment and fined him Tk.50,000 for abducting his factory owner's two and a half year-old son.

Judge Munshi Md Mashiar Rahman of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 pronounced the judgment in presence of the accused.

The judge also fined Tk.50,000, failing to pay, the accused will suffer another year in jail, a junior court official, Rashedul Islam, told BSS.

After the judgment, the court sent Saddam to prison with conviction warrant, he said.

According to the case documents, convict Saddam worked at a plastic factory owned by Abul Khair at Kamrangirchar at a salary of Tk.5000 per month.

On August 15, 2009, Saddam kidnapped his factory owner's son Arif and took him to Mirzapur in Tangail. Abul Khair filed a general dairy (GD) with Kamrangirchar Police Station in this connection. On the same day, Saddam made a phone call between 8 pm and 9pm and demanded Tk.60,000 as ransom, it said.

The document said a day later, Abul Khair filed a case with the same police station on August 16 and police rescued child Arif and arrested Saddam from Mirzapur in Tangail.

On September 28, 2009, police submitted chargesheet accusing Saddam. During the trail of the case, nine witnesses gave their statements to the court, the case document said.