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4 get life for murder in Jhalokati

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Update: 2017-05-24 09:32:33
4 get life for murder in Jhalokati

JHALOKATI: A district court has awarded life term imprisonment to four people for killing a farmer named Abdur Rab, at Rajapur upazila in Jhalokati.

Additional Judge of District and Sessions Court in Jhalokati Mhd. Bazlur Rahman delivered the verdict on Wednesday (May 24) in presence of three of the convicts.

The court also fined Tk. 10,000 each, in default, six months more imprisonment.   

The convicts are-- Md. Shahid Hawlader of South Tarabunia village under Rajapur upazila, Poresh Kopali of the same village, Saidur Rahman Dulal and Nazimur Rahman Mantoo of North Tarabunia village.  

Nazimur Rahman Mantoo was not present in the court during pronouncement of the verdict.

Additional public prosecutor (APP) of Jhalokati district court M Alam Khan Kamal moved for the state, while Abdur Rashi Shikder moved for the convicts.

According to the case statement, Abdur Rab went missing on October 8 in 2010. His body was recovered by police from a puddle on October 22, 14 days after the missing.

On that day, Abdur Rab’s wife Moyna Begum filed a case with Rajapur police station in this connection.  

BDST: 1733 HRS, MAY 24, 2017
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