A Sylhet tribunal on Monday sentenced four people to death in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Judge Nurul Amin Biplab pronounced the judgment.
The condemned convicts are—Abul Hossain, 25, Foysal Ahmed, 27, Abul Khayer Rashid Ahmed, 25 of Kanaighat upazila and Mamunur Rashid, 25 of Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district.
Among them, Rashid was present on the dock while the others were tried in absentia.
The court acquitted Shafiur Rahman Farabi.
Besides, another accused in the case Manan Yeahia died on November 2, 2017 while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
According to the prosecution, blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death some assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in Sylhet May 12, 2015.
Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with Airport Police Station the following day.
Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy – who had been murdered by some assailants in 2015.
On May 9, 2017, CID inspector Arman Ali submitted a chargesheet against six people in the case.
The case was shifted to the Anti-terrorism Tribunal in 2020.
On March 2, 2015, a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) team arrested Farabi from Jatrabari bus stand in the capital while Julhas Bishwas and Abul Bashar were arrested from Fakirerpool area of the capital on September 10 for their alleged involvement in the blogger Avijit Roy killing.
They were shown arrested in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Farabi was sentenced to life imprisonment in blogger Avijit killing case.
Source: United News of Bangladesh