2 get life for killing boy

16 August 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

A court yesterday sentenced two persons to life imprisonment for killing a boy in Zakiganj upazila. The convicts are Rubel Ahmed and Abul Hossain. According to the prosecution story, Zakiganj police on February 16, 2002 recovered the body of Shihabuddin, 15, from a ditch at his village Borhanpur. Shihab's brother Khasrul Haque filed a case with the police next day. Police, on investigation, submitted chargesheet against Rubel Ahmed, Abul Hossain and Shahjahan Kabir of the same village on September 29. The judge awarded life term to Rubel and Abul and fined them Tk 25,000 each, in default, to suffer three more months in jail. Shajahan was acquitted of murder charge.