A Sylhet court has awarded death penalty to four persons in the sensational Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon murder case.
Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha passed the verdict on Sunday morning.
The four death convicts are Kamrul Islam, Moina, Tajuddin and Zakir. Of them, Zakir is absconding. The court also fined them Tk10,000 each.
The prime accused Kamrul, who left Bangladesh immediate after Rajon killing, was brought back from Saudi Arabia on October 15.
The court handed down life term imprisonment to Nur Ahmed and fined him Tk10,000 for filming the video of the killing. In default, he will have to serve another two months in jail.
Besides, the court sentenced Kamrul's brothers—Ali Haider, Muhit Alam and Shamim Ahmed— and Moina to seven years jail while Dulal Ahmed, Aiyaz Ali and Moina were given one year jail.
Moina was sentenced thrice in the case.
The court also acquitted Firoz Ali, Ruhul Amin and Azmat Ullah from the murder charge.
Earlier, the court concluded hearing depositions from 36 witnesses in the case.
Read More: Sadistic killers upload video of child beaten to death * Rajon killing: Prime accused Kamrul produced in court
On July 8, 13-year-old Rajon was beaten to death in Sylhet’s Kumargaon by some men who falsely accused him of stealing a rickshaw van. Later, the footage of the incident went viral on Facebook and it drew massive criticism from the countrymen.
Rajon was brutally tortured to death in front of a workshop near Sultan Ali Market beside Dhaka-Sunamganj road. His father filed the murder case.