Four of a family to die for killing neighbour
A Habiganj court on Wednesday sentenced four people, including three siblings, to death for killing a man in Chunarughat upazila in 2013.
The convicts are three brothers -- Arju Miah, 35, Toyab Ali, 45, and Rafiqul Islam, 55, -- and one of their cousins Safar Uddin, 24. They all hail from Shirikandi village in the upazila.
Habiganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Mafruja Parvin handed down the verdict in presence of the convicts in the afternooon.
According to the case statement, the four convicts called Phul Mia, 32, a farmer of the village, to their house on Oct 5 in 2013 to resolve a previous dispute.
They later suffocated Phul Mia with a pillow and dumped the body in a nearby field.
Victim's brother Abdul Mannan filed a case with Chunarughat Police Station in this connection on November 25.
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