Police murder case: One to be hanged, 2 jailed for 10-year

A Cox's Bazar court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death and two others to 10 years imprisonment for their involvment in killing a police constable in 2015.

Mohiuddin, the judge of Cox's Bazar District and Sessions Judge Court, delivered the verdict on Wednesday.

The death convict is Abu Taher while the other two are Md Khaled Khokon and Abdul Malek. The court also fined the death convict Tk 50,000.

The defence lawyer Mojaffar Ahmad Helali confirmed the information.

According to the case statement, a group of muggers were attempting to rob a tourist in Laboi Point of Cox's Bazar sea beatch on July 23, 2015. Seeing this, the victim tourist police constable Parvej Hossain chased them when one of them stabbed him with a sharp weapon, leaving him critically injured. He was rescued and taken to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital where the physicians decalred him dead.

Later, another constable Rajib Chakma filed a murder case with the police station concerned accusing seven individuals.

Following the case, police have arrested Abu Taher and Abdul Malek on the same day (July 23).