COMILLA: A Comilla court on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to three persons and life-term imprisonment to five others in a murder case in the district.

Judge Chaman Chowdhury of Comilla Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-4 passed the order around 12:30pm.

The capital punishment convicts are M Abu Taher alias Chharu Mia, 50, M Abdus Salam Liton, 30, and Zahirul Islam Zahir, 42, of Jashpur village under Comilla Adarsha Sadar upazila.

The convicts who got life imprisonment are M Bahar alias Rozen, 31, and M Mizanur Rahman, 36, of Jashpur village; M Arifuzzaman Emon, 35, of Bhatpara area and M Abdul Mannan and Saheb Ali of Shimpur village under Sadar upazila.

The court also fined the convicts Tk 50,000 each, in default, six more months imprisonment.

According to the case statement, on October 1 in 2000, a robber gang numbering 12-13 attacked the house of Tofazzal Hossain in Jashpur village.

They chopped the house owner to death and robbed cash and gold ornaments.

The next day, victim’s brother Harun-or-Rashid filed a case with Kotwali Model Thana against anonymous 12-13 people.

However, police arrested a man in this connection on October 30, but Sub-Inspector (SI) Zahirul Islam submitted the report making the arrestee innocent. 

Later, the case was handed over to the Crimes Investigation Department (CID) and they filed the report on February 24 in 2004.

Additional Public Prosecutor Advocate M Jalal Uddin moved for the plaintiff while Advocate Farukh Ahmed and Advocate Rezaul Karim for the defenders.

** 2 to walk gallows in Chapai

BDST: 1905 HRS, FEB 24, 2015