5 to die for killing youth

A court yesterday sentenced five people to death and three others to life imprisonment for killing a university student after abduction in 2006.

The convicts -- Humayun Kabir, Abul Kalam, Tariqul Islam, Ishak and Kalam -- were tried in absentia by the Dhaka Special Judge's Court-1.

The three convicts receiving life sentences -- Hashem, Badshah and Raza -- were also fined Tk 1 lakh each, in default of which they would face seven years of rigorous imprisonment.

Mahiuddin Mishu, a private university student and son of ex-bureaucrat Nur Uddin, was abducted by some miscreants in Kafrul on May 19, 2006. He was strangled the next day after his father failed to pay the abductors Tk 60 lakh in ransom.