AL Leader Kalidas Boral Murder: SC upholds death sentences for two
The Supreme Court upheld a High Court verdict that confirmed death sentences of two convicts and acquitted six people in connection with the murder of Awami League leader and advocate Kalidas Boral in Bagerhat in 2000.
On Sunday, a four-member bench of the SC's Appellate Division, headed by the chief justice, dismissed three leave-to-appeals filed by the state challenging the HC verdict.
Advocate Munsurul Hoque appeared for the accused while DAG Bashir Ahmed represented the state.
On December 11, 2018, the HC acquitted six convicts in connection with the murder. They are: Md Alamgir Siddiqui, Nasir Siddiqui, Swapan, Shawkat Siddiqui, Babul Mollah and Manik. The court also upheld the conviction and death penalty of two others -- Saidul Islam and Saidur Rahman.
Kalidas, also the former chairman of Chitalmari Upazila Parishad, was shot dead by miscreants in Bagerhat in 2000.
In June 2013, a Bagerhat court sentenced five people to death while three others were given life imprisonment in the case.
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