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Three to die for murder

24 August 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Magura

Three people were sentenced to death while 10 others awarded life-term rigorous imprisonment (RI) yesterday for killing a man at village Harishpur in Shalikha upazila of the district. The Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court also fined each of life convicts Tk 1 lakh, in default, to suffer one more year RI. Those who got death penalty are Shamim, Abdus Salam and Kamal while those imprisoned for life are Md Bakuar, Abdul Latif, Nuru Biswas, Dukhu Mian, Kala Shahid, Abul Kashem, Abbas, Bablu, Shahidul and Amin. All the convicts hailed from village Harishpur. According to the prosecution story, one Iltutmish of Harishpur village was hacked injuring him critically in the early hours of May 26, 2000 while he was returning home from adjoining village Kazipara. He succumbed to his injuries at Jessore General Hospital.