Five persons were sentenced to death for killing of businessman Dulal Sheikh in Gopalganj's Muksudpur.
The condemned convicts are: Fakkar Sheikh, and Md Mehedi Hasan Sheikh, residents of Bhattacharya Kandi village, Sumon Saha, and Md Kawsar Fakir, of Gohala, and Md Al Amin Molla of Sreejitpur, under the upazila.
Gopalganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Abbas Uddin delivered the verdict on Tuesday noon.
According to the court order, all the convicts, who are now fugitives, have been fined Tk 50,000 each.
According to the prosecution, Dulal Sheikh was hacked to death by miscreants on the night of June 2, 2012. His body was, later, dumped into the Kumer River.
The deceased's wife Sultana Begum, later, had fined the murder case with Muksudpur Police Station.
BDST: 1856 HRS, OCT 26, 2021
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