UP Member Murder: Seven get life term
A Pirojpur court yesterday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for killing a union parishad (UP) member in Mathbaria upazila in 2009.
The convicted are Mohammad Bachchu, Alam Mollah, Mohammad Sahadat, Mohammad Idris, Mohammad Illias, Abdur Rahim and Delwar Hossain. Of them, Bachchu and Idris were tried in absentia.
Pirojpur District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Abdul Mannan also fined the convicted Tk 10,000 each. In default, they are to suffer one year more in jail.
According to the case statement, members of a robbers’ gang hacked Shah Alam Rana, 48, member of ward no 5 under Dhanisafa Union, when he went out of his house after hearing that a robbery incident had occurred at Phuljhuri village on July 26, 2009.
Family members took injured Rana to Mathbaria Upazila Health Complex, from where he was shifted to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital the next day. He died on 29 July.
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