3 to die for killing madrasa student

29 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Court Correspondent

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three youths to death for killing Abdul Hye Mamun, a madrasa student of Gazipur, in June, 2008 in the city's Badda area. The convicts are Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Mohammad Nur Islam and Mohammad Kajol Ahmed. Judge of the Special Judge Court-5 handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts at a packed courtroom. Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 27 prosecution witnesses. According to the prosecution, a group of miscreants led by Rafiq and Nur abducted the victim on June 3 in 2008 and hacked him to death following a feud over a piece of land at their village home in Noakhali district. Following the incident, victim's father Abdus Sobhan filed a murder case with Badda Police Station against the three in this regard. During the investigation, three had given confessional statements before the magistrates on different dates. Special Public Prosecutor Kabir Hussain appeared for the state while advocates Sanwar Hossain and Wahiduzzamn defended the accused.