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8 get life for murder

17 May 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Faridpur

A court here yesterday sentenced eight people to life imprisonment in a murder case. The lifers are Abdul Karim Matabbar, Abdul Salam Matabbar, Samad Matabbar, Shaheed Matabbar, Siru Matabbar, Rezaul Sheikh, Kader Sheikh and Riaz Matabbar. According to the prosecution, Abdul Karim Matabbar and his cohorts hacked Khabir Hossain to death in a water body in Binokdia area under Nagarkanda upazila on September 30, 2005 to implicate his (Karim's) rival Sattar Mollah in a murder case.