2 outlaws to die for murder

A Chuadanga court yesterday sentenced two cadres of outlawed Janajuddho, one of the factions of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), to death for killing two siblings in 2003. Additional District and Sessions Judge Monjurul Haque also fined each Tk 50,000 and asked police to give the money to the victims' families. The condemned convicts -- Zohurul Islam 36, and Abdul Goni 39 --were tried in absentia. According to the prosecution, the outlaws slaughtered Billal and his brother Anarul of Bamanagar in Chuadanga Sadar upazila on August 11, 2003 as they refused to pay Tk 2 lakh toll to the their party. Helal Uddin, younger brother of the victims, filed a case with Sadar police station in this connection.