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Two outlaws get life

10 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Barisal

A Barisal court yesterday awarded two outlaws belonging to Kamrul group to life imprisonment for murdering a cadre of rival Zia group in Gournadi upazila. Nasir Pramanik and Lokman Bepari were also fined each Tk 5,000, in default, to suffer more three months in jail. Kamrul group leader Reazul Karim Faku earlier died in a 'shootout' with law enforcers on October 31, 2004. According to the prosecution story, Kamrul group cadres led by Faku raided the house of Khokan Sardar,31, a cadre of rival Zia group on June 4, 2004. They shot Khokan to death in front his house and left the spot chanting slogans.