A Chittagong court has sentenced death penalty to a person on charge of killing an insurance company official Nur Khalek Master in the district’s Fatikchhari upazila in 2004.
Chittagong Divisional Public Safety Tribunal Judge Md Momin Ullah, gave the verdict in absentia of the convict, Ashraf Hossain, on Tuesday.
The court also acquitted another accused Golam Mostofa Kalu from the case as the charge against him was not proved, said Advocate Jahangir Alam, prosecutor of the tribunal.
The victim Nur Khalek Master was the senior officer of Fatikchhari branch of Golden Life Insurance.
Ashraf and Kalu were staff of the same company who got fired from the company for corruption.
Police found in their investigation that the expulsion of the persons resulted killing of the official.
On April 2, 2004, Nur was stabbed to death on a small hill at Karbala Tilla area of Fatikchhari.
Victim's father Md Danesh Mia lodged a murder case with Fatikchhari police station on August 2, 2004 in this connection.
Police submitted the charge-sheet on October 2, 2004 accusing two while the court framed charges against them on June 16, 2009.
After testifying 27 witnesses, the court sentenced the verdict under sections 302 and 379 of Criminal Procedure Code.