A Narayanganj court on Sunday sentenced four people to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing a schoolboy in 2013.
Narayanganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 Begum Sabina Yeasmin handed down the judgment.
The condemned convicts are Siraj, 45, son of Abdus Samad, Ahmed Ali, 55, Nahid, 21, son of Amanullah and Sentu Mia, 25.
The lifers are Salma, 42, son of Sirajul Islam Siraj and Husna, 47, wife of Ahmed.
The court also acquitted four accused from the murder charges as allegations brought against them could not be proved.
According to the prosecution, Ahmed Ali and his nephew Iqbal, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Singapore and son of Ismail Hossain of Char Radhanagar village in Fatulla area, had longstanding enmity with Iqbal.
As a sequel to the enmity, Ahmed took Iqbal’s brother Emon Hossain, 13, a class VI student, where he killed the boy and dumped the body after cutting the body into nine pieces on June 13, 2013.
Later, police recovered the body of Emon and a complaint was lodged with Sadar Police Station.
After investigation, police submitted a chargesheet against ten people.
Source: United News of Bangladesh