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Two get life for murder

15 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Chapainawabganj

A court here yesterday sentenced two people to rigorous imprisonment (RI) for life in a murder case in Gomostapur upazila. Additional District and Sessions Judge Arup Kumar Goswami pronounced the verdict. The court also fined each Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer one more year in jail. The convicts are Monirul Islam and Sadequl Islam of Udayangor village. Among them, Sadequl is absconding. According to the prosecution story, Monirul Islam asked his business partner Mojibur Rahman to see him at 1:30 pm on July 20, 1999. On the same night, Monirul and Sadequl killed Mojibur. Local people found Mojibur's body at a field at Nungola village the next morning. Victim's brother Durul Huda later filed a murder case with Gomostapur police station accusing the two.