A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life imprisonment in a case filed for lynching six students at Aminbazar in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in 2011.
Judge Ismat Jahan of Dhaka Second Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court pronounced the verdict in a packed courtroom.
The court, however, acquitted 25 others as charges brought against them could not be proved.
Earlier on November 22, the court set December 2 for pronouncing the judgment as both prosecution and defence concluded their arguments in the case.
On July 17, 2011, an angry mob beat the six students to death at Keblar Char in Baradeshi village suspecting them as robbers.
The deceased were identified as Touhidur Rahman Palash, 20, Ibrahim Khalil, 21, and Kamruzzaman Kanto, all students of Government Bangla College, Tipu Sultan, 19, of Tejgaon College, Sitab Jabir Munib, 20, a student of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, and Shams Rahim Shamim, 18, of Maple Leaf International School.
Savar police filed a murder case against a total of 60 people in connection with the killings.
On January 7, 2013, Additional superintendent of Police Sharif Uddin Ahmed of RAB Headquarters, also the investigating officer of the case, pressed charges against the 60 accused.
On July 8 that year, a Dhaka court framed charges against the accused. Three of them died during the course of the trial.
