4 outlaws get life for murder

A Chuadanga court yesterday sentenced four top cadres of an outlawed Banglar Communist Party (BCP-Laltu) to life imprisonment for killing a farmer in 1999.
District and Sessions Judge Sarkar Abul Mansur Ahmed delivered the verdict in presence of three of the four convicts.
The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each and they have to suffer 10 years more imprisonment in default.
The convicts -- Tahazzol Hossain, 45, of Tildah, Hasem Ali, 36, Arman, 40, of Srikol in Chuadanga Sadar upazila and Sayeed Hossain of Swarupdah in Mirpur upazila in Kushtia -- are top cadres of BCP. Sayeed has been absconding since the incident.
Accused in at least 20 cases, BCP chief Laltu alias Nuruzzaman is now in Kushtia jail.
BCP cadres demanded Tk 5 lakh to farmer Dekhe Ali of Ukta village in Sadar upazila in Chuadanga and killed him on May 21 in 1999 after he declined to give the money, goes the prosecution.