A Khulna court on Tuesday sentenced two people to death and two others to life imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a man in 2017.
Khulna Public Safety Disturbance Crime Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Saifuzzaman Hero handed down the judgment.
The condemned convicts are –Sumon Mallik and Ashiqur Rahman Ashique while the lifers are identified as Kalu alias Choto Kalu and Md Taleb.
Sumon, Ashique and Kalu were tried in absentia.
The tribunal also fined Kalu and Taleb Tk 10,000 each.
According to the prosecution, Shahidul and the convicts had long been involved in different criminal cases including mugging, robbery and drug running in Khulna city.
In the meantime, the convicts developed an enmity with Shahidul over controlling the illegal businesses.
As a sequel to the enmity, the convicts stabbed Shahidul indiscriminately near Joragate area of the city on July 11, 2017, leaving him critically injured.
He was taken to Khulna Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
An FIR was lodged with Kotwali Model Police and police submitted chargesheet against seven people on August 22, 2017.
The court also acquitted three others as allegations brought against them could not be proved.
Source: United News of Bangladesh