11 get life, another to suffer 17-year RI in Khulna
A court on Wednesday sentenced eleven people to life term imprisonment and another to 17 years rigorous imprisonment for killing a schoolboy.
Each of convicts were fined Tk 25,000 while one person was acquitted as his guilt could not be proved.
Additional district and sessions judge (first court), Khulna Md. Moinul Huq handed down the judgement in the afternoon.
Those given life term are Nasir Molla, Mamun, Dalim, Sumon, Sohel, Shaon, Faiz, Rakib, Vendi, Mintu and Motaleb.
Of them, Nasir Molla, Mamun, Dalim, Sumon and Sohel are absconding while six others were present at court at the time of verdict.
The woman sentenced to suffer 17 years of RI is Liza while accused Masud Rana alias Ferdaus was acquitted by the court.
The prosecution story in brief is that the convicts strangled schoolboy Nur Mohammad, 18, to death at 4pm on August 2 in 2004 taking him to the roof of a house in Sonadanga residential area of Khulna city.
The house, where the murder took place, belonged to Shaon, one of the eleven lifers.
Later, Liza, mother of Shaon, threw the body of Nur Mohammad into a safety tank of her house at dead of night.
Rizia Begum, mother of the slain schoolboy, lodged FIR on August 3 in the same year as complainant with Sonadanga PS of Khulna city in connection with the murder.
Later, police arrested Nasir Molla from Sonadanga area who confessed to his involvement in the gruesome murder.
On August 4, the decomposed body of Nur Mohammod was recovered from safety tank on the basis of confessional statement of Nasir Molla.
SI Rezaul Karim of Sonadanga police station submitted charge sheet against 13 people on October 17 in 2004 as investigation officer (IO) in the case.
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