A Cumilla court on Sunday sentenced nine people to death for killing Jubo League leader Jamal Uddin alias Bakka Jamal in Chauddagram upazila on the district.
At the same time, nine people have been sentenced to life imprisonment while the judge acquitted five people as the charges were not proved against them.
Those sentenced to death in the case were - Ismail Hossain Bachchu, former chairman of Chauddagram's Alkara Union, Salauddin, Abdur Rahman, Mofizur Rahman Khandkar, Ziauddin Shimul, Zahid Bin Shuvo, Rezaul Karim Bablu of Alkra Union's Kulasar village, Riaz Uddin Miyaji, Mamata Amir Hossain.
The convicts who received life-term imprisonment were - Nurul Alam, Kofil Uddin, Nurunnabi Sujon, Iqbal Ahmed, Saiful Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman Khandkar, Mosharef Hossain, Alauddin and Mohammad Ali Hossain.
Cumilla Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Jahangir Hossain handed down the verdict in the afternoon.
According to the case statement, on January 8, 2016, Chauddagram's Alkara Union Jubo League President Jamal Uddin was killed. It was learnt that a dispute arose between the Jubo League leader Jamal Uddin and the then local UP chairman Ismail Hossain Bachchu as Jamal protested the chaiman's various misdeeds including extortion. Following this, the chairman's men attacked Jamal Uddin. He was injured. In this regard, Jamal himself filed a case in court as a plaintiff.
After filing the case, chairman Ismail Hossain Bachchu planned to kill Jamal.
Later, on January 8, 2016 at 8 pm, Jubo League leader Jamal was shot and hacked to death by the convicts led by the Chairman Ismail Hossain Bachchu in Padua area under Chauddagram upazila on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway while Jamal was travelling to Dhaka from Cumilla.
In this regard, Jamal's elder sister Zohra Akter filed a case against 23 people as the plaintiff.
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