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28 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Court correspondent

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing Awami League (AL) leader Farid Uddin Sarker in the city's Shyampur area in August, 2008. Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 handed down the sentence in absence of the convicts Mohammad Jasim and Kamal Hossain. The court also acquitted Rajib Hossain, Tofazzal Hossain, Mohammad Zakir Hossain and Roni Ahmed Khan as the charges brought against them were not proved. The punishment of the fugitive convicts will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the court said. Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 28 prosecution witnesses during trial of the case. According to the prosecution, a gang of miscreants led by Jasim and Kamal entered the “Toma Hotel Sweet Fast Food & Mini Chinese Restaurant'' at Rayerbagh at Shyampur in the city about 8:40am on August 23, 2008 and shot AL leader Farid Uddin Sarker, leaving him seriously injured. Farid who was owner of the hotel, was having his breakfast. The victim was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for treatment where the on-duty doctors declared him dead. Following the incident, victim's wife Suraiya Khanam filed a murder case against Jasim and Kamal and four others with Shyampur Police Station.