A Kushtia court on Thursday sentenced six Awami League activists to life imprisonment in a case over killing an Islami Chhatra Shibir leader around 11 years back.
Kushtia Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Md Tajul Islam also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default, they will have to serve one more year of imprisonment, Public Prosecutor Anup Kumar Nandy said.
The court also acquitted 29 people from the case as allegations brought against them could not be proved.
The convicts are Abdullah, Rubel, Kashem, Ruhul Amin, and two brothers — Nazrul and Farid, residents of Phanty village in Kumarkhali upazila.
All the convicts except Rubel were present during the delivery of the judgment.
According to the case statement, all the accused in a planned way stabbed Shibir leader Abdullah Al Manju to death over previous enmity at Chairman Para in the upazila on April 13, 2012.
Later, his father Abdul Razzak filed a case in this regard.
The investigating officer of the case Nasir Uddin pressed charge sheets against the accused on April 30, 2015.
