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12 get life for murder

Our Correspondent, Barisal
A Barisal court yesterday sentenced 12 people to life-term imprisonment and fined each of the convicts Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer one more year in jail for killing a retired BDR man in Muladi upazila on October 17, 2004. According to the prosecution story, Rafiqul Islam Khokan, a retired BDR personal, was murdered by the accused at Mira Char over a land dispute. Shahar Banu, mother of the victim, lodged a murder case on October 18, 2004 with Muladi police station. SI Abdul Aziz Laskar, investigation officer of the case, submitted charge sheet against 12 accused on August 30, 2005.