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27 May 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Faridpur

A Faridpur court yesterday sentenced nine people to life imprisonment in a murder case. They were also fined Tk10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more in jail. According to the prosecution, Salil Mojumder of Charvodrason upazila went missing when he was sleeping in a trawler on July 18 2004 at Gopalpur. Later, police recovered Salil's decomposed body from Sadullahpur Char on August 1.