A Correspondent:
Cumilla: A Cumilla court on Sunday sentenced five people to death for killing a schoolboy in 2012.
The condemned convicts are—Sujon Mia, 25, Al Amin, 30, Sohel Mia, 25, Shahin Mia, 27 and Sohag Mia, 28 of Muradnagar upazila of the district.
Of them, Sujon, Shahin, Sohag and Al Amin were tried in absentia. The court also fined them Tk 30,000 each.
Meanwhile, the court also sentenced two people- Akimul Haue Madhu and Abdur Rahman- to seven years imprisonment each in the case. They were also fined Tk 20,000 each.
According to the prosecution, the convicts called out Ashiqur Rahman Ashique, a class VIII student in Homna upazila, over phone in 2012. Later they killed him after slitting his throat.
After examining the records and witnesses, Judge of the Cumilla Additional District and Sessions Judge court-5, Jahangir Hossain handed down the punishment and acquitted another one as allegation brought against him could not be proved.
