RAJSHAHI: A speedy tribunal here on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to three people and life term imprisonment to one for killing a school boy after abduction in Rajshahi on December 20, 2014, reports UNB.

The condemned convicts are Majedur Rahman Sagor,19, son of Abul Kashem, Nazmul Haque, 20, son of Hazrat Ali and Ripon Sarkar Liton, 20, son of Abdul Razzak while the lifer is Asinur Begum, 32 of the area.

Public prosecutor of the case Entazul Haque Babu said Rajshahi Speedy Tribunal Judge Justice Shireen Kabita Akhtar handed down the verdict on the presence of the convicts around 3:00pm.

According to the prosecution, the convicts abducted Fazle Hossain Rabbi, a third grade student of Berabari Government Primary School and son of Ali Hossain, a resident of Berabari area in Mohanpur upazila of the district on December 20, 2014.

Later they killed Rabbi and dumped the body at a paddy field keeping it in a sack. They demanded Tk10 lakh as ransom from the victim’s father for his (Rabbi’s) release.

Ali Hossain filed general diary with Mohanpur Police Station on that day and police took it as a case on December 24.

Police recovered beheaded body of Rabbi from the paddy field on December 26 of the year.

Following a phone call police arrested the convicts and produced them before the court where Sagor and Asinur gave the confessional statement to the court.

After examine the records and witness the tribunal handed down the verdict.

Three jailed in Dhaka

UNB adds from Dhaka: A court in Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced three people to life term imprisonment for killing one Humayun Kabir Titu in Kadamtali area of Demra over enmity in 2010.

Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal- 4 Judge, Abdur Rahman, passed the order in the morning.

All three lifers - Md Sohag alias Bara Sohag, Md Mamun Sheikh and Rabin Sheikh are on the run.

The court also fined each of the convicts Tk 20,000 in default of which they would have to serve one year more in jail. The court acquitted three other accused in the case.

According to the case statement, Titu was shot dead on November 26 in 2010 while he was returning to his home.