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7 get life for murder

5 October 2009, 17:00 PM

BSS, Rajshahi

A court here on Sunday sentenced seven people to life imprisonment on charge of killing a suspected thief in a village around nine and a half years ago. The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer, two months more in jail. The convicts were identified as Minnnat Ali, Mamun Islam, Saban, Atu alias Ataher Ali, Ziaul Haque Zia, Korban Ali and Khairul Islam. Two other accused Saiful Islam and Kalu, were acquitted as the charge brought against them could not be proved. All nine are residents of Nurnagar village under Bagha upazila. According to the prosecution story, the convicts stormed into the house of their neighbour Nazim Uddin and beat him indiscriminately on charge of a theft. Nazim Uddin later succumbed to his injuries on January 3, 2000.