3 to die, 7 get life for murder
A court here yesterday sentenced three people to death and seven others to life imprisonment for murdering an employee of Pirojpur deputy commissioner's (DC) office in 2012.
Additional District and Sessions Judge SM Zillur Rahman also fined the death sentence awardees and lifers Tk 20,000 and Tk 10,000 each respectively.
The death row convicts are Rezaul Islam, 24, Shahinur Rahman alias Sanu, 40, and Mizan Bepary, 27, while the lifers are Rezaul's mother Rexona, Nizam Akan, Sumon Sheikh, 23, Omar Faruk, 24, Mamun Matubbar, 24, Limon Talukder, 24, Hakim Talukder, and Rusell, 27. They all hail from Kalikathi village in Pirojpur Sadar upazila.
Of them, Rezaul and Sanu were tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, Feroz Majhi, 22, son of Abdus Sattar, also a master roll employee of Pirojpur DC office, developed a feud with Rezaul's family when he rejected Rezaul's proposal to marry his younger sister.
On April 5, a group of 12 to 14 youths led by Rezaul hacked to death Feroz near his house while he was returning from a religious gathering.
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