Tareque Sayeed challenges death sentence
Sacked Rab-11 official Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and sub-inspector Purnendu Bala, who along with others got death penalty in the Narayanganj seven-murder cases, filed petitions with the High Court yesterday challenging the verdict, court sources said.
Earlier on Monday, Nur Hossain, another condemned convict, filed an appeal with the HC against the death penalty awarded by a Narayanganj court on January 16.
On January 16, a Narayanganj court sentenced 26 people, including Tareque, to death and nine others to different jail terms in the cases.
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