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SIRAJGANJ, May 20, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today sentenced six people to death for killing a vegetable trader in 2017.

Senior District and Sessions Judge M Ali Ahmed pronounced the verdict and also imposed a fine of Taka 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one month more in jail.

All the convicts are absconding, said Advocate Shakil Mohammad Sharifur Haydar, public prosecutor of the court.

The convicts area Khaja Mia, son of Haider Ali of Pardhundia village of Gobindaganj police station, M Enamul, son of the late Moyez Uddin of Bishpukur village in Harinathpur, Mojahid, son of late Mojibur Sheikh of Dargapara village, Basu son of Haider Ali of Pardhundia village, Saidul Islam, son of Abdur Rahman Pradhan of Madardah Purbapara village and Milon Sarkar, son of Nazrul Islam Sarkar of Ramnagar village of Saghata police station in Gaibandha district. 

According to prosecution, vegetable trader Nazmul Islam left for Dhaka in the afternoon of August 10, 2017, after buying vegetables from Chakgori Market in Naogaon. But his family has lost contact with Nazmul from August 11. 

Later, the victim's body was recovered from Hatikumrul area under Salanga Police Station in Sirajganj on August 12. 

Nazmul's father Abdur Rahman filed a case in this connection.