Four to die for killing schoolboy
A court here yesterday sentenced four people to death for killing a six-year-old schoolboy after abduction in 2013.
The convicts are Saidul Islam, Md Al-Amin, Rafiqul Islam and Abdur Rashid of Chalklangura village in Durgapur upazila of the district.
According to the case statement, on August 19 in 2013, the convicted four abducted Emon Ahmed, son of Badal Ahmed of the village.
They later killed the boy after failing to realise ransom money from his mother.
Nurunnahar, mother of the deceased, filed a case accusing six people, including the convicted four with Durgapur Police Station the same night.
After examining the records and witnesses, Netrakona Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Dr AKM Abul Kashem handed down the verdict in presence of three of the convicts while Abdur Rashid was tried in absentia.
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