A court here in Chittagong yesterday awarded life term to three persons in a murder case.
Metropolitan Additional Sessions Judge Shamsul Huda awarded the sentence to Alamgir, 25, Hiron Mia, 25 and Jahir, 20 and fined Tk 5,000 each, in default to suffer 2 years more.
According to the case statement, the convicts, staffs of a hotel at the city's Sadarghat area, chopped its owner Mansur Mia to death inside the hotel in July 2004.
Younger brother of the victim filed a case with Double Mooring police station in this connection.
Among the convicts Jahir remained absconding and 2 others are in jail.