IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANGLADESH

HIGH COURT DIVISION

(CRIMINAL REVISIONAL JURISDICTION)

Present:

Mr. Justice Md. Kamrul Hosssain Mollah

Criminal Revision No.486 of 2023 Jahangir Alam

.....convict-petitioner

-Versus-

The State and another

…... opposite-parties

Mr. Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman, Advocate

........For the convict-petitioner Mrs. Umme Masumun Nesa, A.A.G

……..For the State No one appears

…..For the opposite party No.2

Heard on 15.11.2023and Judgment on: 19.11.2023

Md. Kamrul Hossain Mollah.J:

This is an application under Section 439 read with section 435 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This Rule was issued calling upon the opposite parties to show cause as to why the impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 05.02.2020 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 5th Court, Chattogram in Criminal Appeal No.555 of 2018 dismissing the appeal and thereby affirming the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 23.10.2017 passed by the learned Senior Judicial Magistrate, Chattogram in C.R. Case No.7 of 2017(Zoraranj) convicting the petitioner under section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1980 and sentencing him to suffer rigorous impri