Six get life-term imprisonment in Kushtia

A court in Kushtia on Sunday sentenced six people to life-term imprisonment for killing a microbus driver in Sadar Upazila in 2009.

District and Sessions Judge Tajul Islam handed down the verdict to Manik Joarder, 37, a resident in Jhenaidah district, Qurban Ali, 47, hailed from Mirpur Upazila, Anar, 52, in Sadar

Upazila, Shohan, 37, Jahangir Hossain Manna alias Sagor, 37, an inhabitant in Magura district and Kowser Ali, 40, from Alamdanga Upazila

in the district.

According to the prosecution, the convicted persons hacked the driver to death on July 28, 2009. They later dumped the body in Ailchara area under Sadar upazila.