Six get life imprisonment for murder

A trial tribunal on Thursday in Rajshahi convicted six persons and sentenced them to life in prison on charge of killing a man in Bagha upazila in the district around two years back.

In the verdict, the tribunal also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more behind the bars each.

Divisional Speedy Tribunal Judge Anup Kumar handed down the verdict in a crowded courtroom with the presence of the accused of the case at noon.

The convicts are: Mintu Ali, 35, Muhammad Rana, 21, Muhammad Pana, 25, Arif Hossain, 25, and Sharif Hossain, 22, of Sultanpur village under Bagha Upazila and Arzed Ali, 47, of Moniharpur village in Lalpur Upazila of Natore district.

Fifteen other accused of the case were acquitted as the charge brought against them could not be proved.

Special Public Prosecutor Entajul Haque said the accused in accomplice with each other indiscriminately chopped Nazmul Hossain and his nephew Tariqul Islam indiscriminately at Sultanpur crossing in broad day light on January 14, 2020.

Subsequently, Nazmul succumbed to his injuries at the nearby Bagha Upazila Health Complex on the same day.

Azizul Islam, father of the victim, had lodged a case with Bagha police station.

Upon completion of investigation police pressed charges accusing 21 people.

The tribunal examined recorded depositions of the enlisted prosecution witnesses and other relevant evidence and pronounced the aforesaid verdict.