Seventy-one soldiers of Border Guard Bangladesh 17 Battalion were awarded various terms of imprisonment for their involvement in 2009 BDR mutiny.
The special court-16, led by Rangamati sector commander Colonel Md Bashirul Islam, also fined them Tk 100 each.
Among the convicts, 12 jawans were jailed for seven years, 13 jawans for six years, six jawns for five years, four jawans for four years, one jawan for three years, three jawans for two years and six months, 12 jawans for two years, four jawans for six months, 15 jawans for one year and one jawan for six months.
The convicts expressed their solidarity with the mutineers of BDR headquarters at Pilkhana on February 25-26, 2009.
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