A Cumilla court has sentenced six people to death and seven others to life imprisonment for killing two people over a land dispute.
Cumilla Additional District and Session Judge Md Jahangir Hossain handed down the punishment on Monday. The court also fined Tk 50,000, each.
The death-row convicts are—Tofayel Ahmed Tota, Kamal Hossain, Md Mamun, Alamgir Hossain, Babul and Harunur Rashid.
Of them, Tofayel, Mamun and Harunur Rashid tried in absentia.
The lifers are—Haidar Ali, Abdul Mannan, Jamal Hossain, Abul Bashar, Jakir Hossain, Abdul Quader and Abdul Kuddus.
According to the prosecution, on August 12, 2016, the convicts killed Gias Uddin and Jamal Hossain of Dhanaitori in Sadar Dakkhin upazila over land dispute.
Mehedi Hasan, son of Gias Uddin, filed a case against 12 identified people and four to five unidentified people with Sadar Dakkhin Police Station.
Meanwhile, police submitted chargehseet against 15 people on August 20, 2017.
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