Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a source of Detective Brach (DB) of police in 1999.
Judge of the Dhaka Additional Metropoltian Session Judge Court-4, Mosaddek Minhaz handed down the punishment.
The lifers are Habildar Md Billal Hossain, Constable Abdur Rauf and manager of DB Canteen Anwar Hossain.
The court also issued warrants for their arrest as all of them were tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, Jalal Ahmed Shafi, a source of DB police, left his Lalmatia residence in Mohammadpur Police Station area at around 3:00am on March 20, 1999, for the DB office with his ve-hicle license and chequebook.
Later police recovered the decomposed body of Jalal from the water tank of the DB office on March 25, 1999.
Later, the then sub-inspector of Ramna Police Station, SM Ali Azam Siddique, filed a case in this con-nection.
After identifying the body, Abbas Uddin, son of Jalal, filed another case on April 4, 1999.
