DHAKA, March 20, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today sentenced 15 people to
death in a case lodged over murdering a cloth trader in Dohar upazila of
Dhaka in 2008.
“Dhaka first additional district and session judge Pradip Kumar Roy
pronounce the verdict in a jam-packed courtroom this noon,” Prosecutor Qazi
Shahanara Yasmin said.
The 15 death-row-convicts are Siraj alias Seru Karigar, Minhaj alias Minu,
Khalil Karigar, Shahjahan Karigar, Didar, Ershad, Kalu, Ajhar Karigar, Niyaj
Uddin, Mozammel alias Suja, Jalil Karigar, Jalal, Billal, Ibrahim and Abdul
Latif.
The court ordered to hang them by their neck till their death. It also
fined them Taka 20 thousand each. The court sentenced Majeda and China Begum
to life imprisonment.
According to the case documents, convicts beat victim Nazrul Islam
mercilessly on April 3, 2008, and left him to die. They also thrashed
Nazrul’s wife Surjavan as she tried to save her husband. Nazrul died of his
injuries as people rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Nazrul’s uncle Nazimuddin Ahmed filed the case with Dohar Police Station
on that day and the police on July 26, filed charge sheet against the 17
accused. The court on May 25, 2009, framed charges against them.