A Chattogram court has sentenced four people to death and one to life imprisonment for killing a man over land dispute in Raozan upazila in 2016.
Chattogram’s Third Additional District and Sessions Judge HM Shafiqul Islam delivered the verdict in the case on Wednesday, in presence to two convicts.
The court also fined the death row convicts Tk 50,000 each, and Sudip Chowdhury, who was imprisoned for life term, Tk 10,000.
The court acquitted another suspect in the case. The court issued an arrest warrant for the absconding convicts in this connection.
The death row convicts are -- Mithu Chowdhury, Sumon Chowdhury, Md Delwar Hossain and Md Ershad Hossain.
According to the case statement, on the night of Jun 25, 2016, the convicts killed a man named Sulal Chowdhury, 55, due to a dispute over the boundary of the house.
The body was found around 10pm that same night.
Three days into the murder, the victim’s son lodged a murder case accusing one named and other unnamed persons of the murder.
