24 awarded death penalty in 5 cases
Death sentence of
5 others upheld
STAFF REPORTER
A total of 24 people were yesterday sentenced to death in 6 cases filed over murders at different places of the country. In Gazipur, 11 people were sentenced to death by a court for killing a Juba League leader in Kapasia upazila in 2003. The condemned convicts are Faruque, Belayet Hossain Beltu, Abdus Alim, Ataur Rahman, Farhad, Joynal, Joj Miah, Halim, Ripon, Jewel and Anar Miah. Some of them were activists of Juba League and Chhatra League. Judge of additional district judge court-1 Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan handed down the verdict yesterday.
Jalal Sarker, 32, Jubo League Kapasia upazila unit president, was hacked to death near Ballkhela Bazar area of the upazila on August 17, 2003 following political rivalry, said the prosecution. Victims brother Milon Sarkar filed a case with Kapasia Police Station in connection with the murder on August 18, 2003.
In Sylhet, three people have been sentenced to death by a court for killing nine-year-old schoolboy Abu Sayeed after abduction in the city on March 14. The three condemned convicts are suspended police constable Ebadur Rahman alias Putul, 24, of Airport Police Station, Abdur Rakib, 26, general secretary of the district Olama League, and Ataur Rahman Geda, 33 a police informant.
Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Abdur Rashid pronounced the verdict acquitting another accused Mahib Hossain Masum, publicity secretary of the Sylhet district unit of Olama League. On 14 March, police recovered the body of Abu Sayeed from the house of police constable Ebadur at Jharnapar in the city. Sayeed, a fourth grader of Shahi Eidgah Hazrat Shahi Mir Govt Primary School was abducted on March 11.
Constable Ebadur Rahman later made a confessional statement under Section 164 before Judge Shahedul Karim of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrates Court-1. Meanwhile, a Narayanganj court sentenced four people to death yesterday for schoolboy Emon murder case filed in 2013.
Additional district and sessions judges of special tribunal-1 Miaji Mohammad Shahdiul Islam pronounced the verdict.
Emon Hossain, a class-VI student of Kanainagar High School and son of Ismail Hossain of Char Radhanagar village in Fatulla of Sadar upazila, went missing on June 13, 2013.
Later, police recovered the body of the schoolboy sliced into nine pieces from a field, half a km away from his house, on June 22.
Ten accused gave confessional statements to a court under section 164.
On July 21 2013, Nahid described the brutality before the journalists at a press briefing at the office of the police super.
Nahid, also a cousin of Emon, had said he along with six people, including Siraj and Salma, took the schoolchild to the field near his house on June 13 after making him unconscious with sedatives. Later, they cut him into nine pieces and left the place by dumping the body here. Iqbal, elder brother of Emon, and his uncle Ahammad Ali had a conflict over a trifling matter two years back. As a sequel to the incident, they killed Emon to take revenge upon Iqbal, Nahid said.
A Chittagong tribunal yesterday sentenced four people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing an auto- rickshaw driver in 2008. Sayeda Hosne ara, Judge, Chittagong Divisional Public Safety Tribunal handed down the verdict in a jam-packed courtroom. The convicts awarded death sentence are Nurul Alam, Abul Kalam, Kawsar and Rubel.
After examining 17 out of 27 prosecution witnesses the court handed down the judgment, said the public prosecutor.
According to the prosecution, the convicts hired Mohammad Yusufs CNG-run auto-rickshaw from Boddarhat area of Chittagong city on May 03, 2008 for going to a shrine at Anwara. When the auto-rickshaw reached Gomodndi Fultola in Boalkhali Upazila, they stabbed Yusuf to death and took away his auto-rickshaw.
In Barguna, a man has been sentenced to death for killing his brother-in-law in Sadar upazila in 2011. The condemned convict was identified as Motaleb Bepari, 57.
According to the persecution, Motaleb stabbed his brother-in-law Sohrab over a land dispute at Jakir Tabak village in Sadar upazila on February 19, 2011, leaving him dead on the spot.
Judge of the District and Sessions Judges Court Barekujjaman handed down the verdict yesterday.
A Kushtia court has sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant wife in Daulatpur Upazila in 2011.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1s judge Reza Md Alamgir Hasan delivered the verdict yesterday in presence of convict Rokon Mandal.
According to prosecution, Mandal murdered his wife Laili Khatun on the night of Aug 26, 2011, following an argument.
Mandal dumped the body of his wife in a nearby drain. Police recovered the decomposed remains two days later.
Meanwhile, the High Court yesterday upheld the death sentences of five people in a case over Dhaka businessman Jahangir Alams murder in 2008.
The late mans wife, actress Sumaiya Kaniz Sagarika, is one of the convicts. The four others are Ibrahim alias Yasin, Hijra Khalil, Al Amin and Khalil Sheikh.
The court yesterday also acquitted one of the death-row convicts, Ali Ashraf Liton, as the charges against him could not be proved beyond doubt, said court officials.
