A Sylhet court today handed death penalty to two persons in a case filed for dealing illegal drugs.

The convicts are Hossain Ahmed Manik and Parvez Alam Sumon of Beanibazar upazila in Sylhet, reports our Sylhet correspondent.

Mujibur Rahman Bhuiyan, metropolitan session judge in Sylhet, sentenced the death penalty and fined the duo Tk 1 lakh each, said Mofur Ali, additional public prosecutor of the court.

Of them, Parvez is in Sylhet Central Jail and Manik is on the run.

According to the case filed on March 9, 2014, a parcel was received at Sylhet Post Office from Pakistan. When the postal supervisor was inspecting the parcel, he found 8.025 grammes of heroin in it.

Later, on March 13, Mijanur Rahman, associate revenue officer of the postal department, filed a case with Daksin Surma Police Station under Drug Act 1990.

The parcel had four fake names but police traced the two with the phone number mentioned in the parcel. On November 2, 2015, Inspector Jamshed Alam pressed charge against the duo.