Two persons are being taken to jail after a Chattogram court sentenced them to death penalty on Thursday for killing three brothers in Bayazid Bostami area of the city in 2004. Photo: Collected
A Chattogram court has sentenced two persons to death penalty for killing three of a family in Bayazid Bostami area of the city 19 years ago.
Additional Metropolitan Sessions Court-1 Judge Kamal Hossain Sikdar delivered the verdict on Thursday in presence of the convicted persons. The court also fined the convicts Tk 2 lakh each.
The convicts are -- Abul Kashem and Yousuf , both of them hailed from Baluchara area under Bayazid Bostami Thana in the city.
According to the prosecution story, the convicted persons shot to kill their neighbors Manowara Begum and her two brothers Alamgir and Saiful Islam over land dispute in Baluchara area of Chattogram at the night on June 29 in 2004.
The next day, Aysha Akter Shilpi, wife of the victim Saiful, filed a murder case with Bayazid Bostami police station against four people.
Later, the accused Gittu Nasir and Foiz Munna were killed by cross fire.
Police submitted a charge sheet on February 7, 2005 against two persons and the court framed charges against them on July 5, 2007.
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