A Correspondent
Mymensingh: A My-mensingh court on Wednesday sentenced three siblings to death and 10 others to life im-prisonment for killing a farmer over a land dis-pute in 2015.
Judge of the My-mensingh Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 Shamsud-din Ahmed handed down the punishment.
The condemned convicts are Mozammel Haque Swapan Mia, 46, Apon Mia, 43, and Ripon Mia, 41– three sons of Abu Bakar Siddique of Char Laxmidia in Nandail upazila of the district. Of them, Ripon was tried in absentia.
The lifers are Abu Bakar Siddique, 71, his son Kanchon Mia, 36, Rubel, 56, Pervez, 31, Mofazzal Hossain, 56, Kashid, 59, Al Amin, 31, Sumon Mia, 36, Noyon Mia, 29, and Ashadul, 29. Asha-dul was tried in absentia.
The court also fined each of them Tk 50,000, in default to suffer one year of rigorous imprison-ment.
According to the prose-cution, the convicts had an enmity with Shafiqul Islam Sobi, son of Hazrat Ali of Char Bholamari area in Nandail upazila, over a piece of land.
On February 25, 2015, the convicts, equipped with local weapons, stabbed Shafiqul while he was sitting at a shop, leaving him dead on the spot.
Rafiqul Islam, brother of the deceased, filed a case with Nandail Police Sta-tion against 13 identified people and 10-12 uni-dentified people.
Later, police submitted chargesheet against 13 people.
