A Narsingdi court on Monday convicted six people of killing a trader in 2003 and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The convicts are Anwar Hossain, 32, Mosharraf Hossain, 35, Firoz Miah, 40, Zilhas alias Juhash, 30, Ataur Rahman, 50, and Akbar Ali, 42, of Kurerpar village in Sadar upazila. Of them, Mosharraf and Firoz were tried in absentia. The court also fined them Tk10,000 each, stating that a failure to provide this money would add another year of rigorous imprisonment to their sentences. The victim’s brother filed a case with the Sadar Police Station in this regard.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 16, 2018 17:25 UTC