4 get 10-yr RI for cutting tendons of college teacher

14 July 2009, 17:00 PM

A Correspondent, Gopalganj

A Gopalganj court on Monday awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) to four people for cutting tendons of a college teacher after feeding him narcotics in an attempt to kill him. The convicts are Noor Alam Palash, an office peon of Government Bangabandhu College, and his accomplices Sheikh Saifur Rahman, Emran Fakir and Shahin. They mixed sleeping pills with the tea of Syed Fazlur Rahman, assistant professor of physics department of the college, at his house and tried to get bank cheques signed by him on December 3 of 2003, goes the prosecution. As Fazlur Rahman sensed the conspiracy, the four people in an attempt to kill him cut tendons of his both legs and fled the scene leaving him bleeding, goes the prosecution. Later police arrested Palash and Sheikh Saifur Rahman. Two other accused are still absconding. Magistrate Dilip Kumar Bhowmik of Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court of Gopalganj pronounced the verdict after taking evidence of 10 witnesses. Each of the accused were awarded five years' RI and a fine of Tk 10,000 for cutting tendons of Fazlur Rahman's legs and another five years' RI and a fine of Tk 10,000 for feeding the victim narcotics to make him unconscious. Palash was earlier sentenced to life term imprisonment in a case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.