Three persons were sentenced to life-term imprisonment for their involvement in killing a van driver in
Rajshahi district in 2020.
Muhammad Saifur Rahman Siddiqui, Judge of the Prevention of Public Safety Violation Tribunal, found them guilty in the murder charge and handed down the verdict on Sunday.
The
court also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default, they will have to suffer more six months behind the bar.
The convicts are Minarul Islam, 43, son of Rustam Ali, Masud Rana, 38, son of Mokshed Ali and Jewel, 35, son of Imrul Kayesh. All are residents of Askerpur village under Charghat Upazila in the district.
According to the prosecution, the trio armed with sharp lethal weapons attacked van-puller Jalal Uddin, 45, and chopped him indiscriminately at Askerpur area on October 9, 2020. Promptly, they decamped with his battery-operated van leaving behind him in a pool of blood.
Hearing the sound of his groaning, locals rescued the victim and took him to the nearby Charghat Upazila Health Complex where the attending doctors declared him dead.
On the following day, Manik Hossain, son of the deceased, lodged a
murder case with Charghat Model Police Station.
Upon completion of investigation, the police pressed charge-sheet against the three accused.
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