8 get life term jail for killing student in Mirpur

A Dhaka court today sentenced eight people to life term imprisonment for killing a class 10 student in Dhaka's Pallabi area in 2014.

Judge Tahsin Iftekhar of the 7th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of all the convicts at the courtroom.

The judge also acquitted two others -- Shahinur Begum and Nannu Miah -- as their involvement with the murder was not proven.

The convicts are Md Faisal, Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Rassel, Md Oli Miah, Md Saddam Hossain, Rabbi alias Chotu, Md Imran Hossain and Md Rashidul Alam.

On September 2014, the body of Mehedi Hasan (16), a student of Mirpur Bangla High School, was recovered from the first floor of an under-construction building near his residence in Pallabi area.

Later, victim's father Mosharraf Hossain filed a case with Pallabi Police Station.

The victim's family members said that he was murdered as he protested drug business in the area.

Earlier, the prosecution and the defence completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 12 prosecution witnesses, including the complainant of the case.