Rajshahi, Jan. 20 -- A mobile court on Saturday evening sentenced a union parishad chairman to seven-day imprisonment for digging a pond in a piece of cultivable land in Tiorkuri Beel of Durgapur upazila.

The convicted is Riazul Islam, chairman of Deluabari Union Parishad.

A mobile court led by Executive Magistrate and Assistant Commissioner (land) Samar Kumar Paul conducted the drive in the area and sentenced him, said the magistrate.

Earlier the authorities concerned warned the UP chairman to stop digging the pond, but he did not refrain and violated the law, said the magistrate.

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