CHITTAGONG: A district court on Sunday (October 22) awarded life term imprisonment to seven persons for killing a man more than a decade ago in Satkania upazila of Chittagong.
Judge of the Additional District and Sessions Court in Chittagong Munshi Abdul Majid also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default, one more year of imprisonment.
The other convicts are- Abdul Hamid, Mahbubur Rahman, Shafiq Ahmed, Abdus Shukkur, Abdur Razzak, Nazir Ahmed and Faiz Ahmed.
One of the convicts, identified as Amjad Hossain, died during the trail.
The plaintiff's lawyer Imtiaz Mahmud Chowdhury told Banglanews that the convicts beat Kasim Ali to death over previous enmity at Mirjakhil area of Satkania upazila on April 2 in 1997.
Later, Mojlish Khatun, Kasim Ali’s wife, filed the case with Satkania Police Station.
BDST: 1945 HRS, OCT 22, 2017
AH/AP