A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced two people to life-term imprisonment for killing Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh leader Masum in Munshiganj in 2004.
Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Dhaka’s First Speedy Trial Tribunal handed down the verdict after examining case records and depositions of 23 prosecution witnesses.
The court also fined the lifers – Babul and fugitive Shahadat – Tk50,000 each, in default they will have to suffer one more year in jail. Babul also sentenced to eight years in prison under another charge in the case.
The court also acquitted 20 other accused as the allegations brought against them were not proved. The names of three accused, out of 25, were dropped as they died during the trial period.
The case says miscreants attacked Abdullah Al Mamun and his brother Masum at Kamargarh in Sreenagar of Munshiganj as they came out of their house to join a procession led by Mahi B Chowdhury, joint secretary general of BDB, on June 7, 2004. They stabbed the brothers, leaving Masum, who was local leader of Bikalpa Dhara, dead on the spot. Abdullah was critically injured. Abdullah filed the case with Sreenagar police the following day against some unidentified people.
Police submitted the supplementary charge sheet against 25 people on November 6, 2004 and the accused were indicted on October 22, 2008.