A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment and another to three years for killing a student of Jagannath University in 2008.
The life term convicts were Kamal Hossain Jewel, Miraz, Ashraful Newaz, Maqfi Mahmud Maishu, Mostafa Kamal Roman, Sharif Ahmed and Mahmud Hasan Rony. They were also fined Tk20,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more in jail.
Judge Md Nuruzzaman of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal 2 handed down the verdict after examining the witnesses and records in the case.
The court also awarded three years imprisonment to another accused, Rizia Begum, and fined her Tk5,000, in default, to suffer one month more in jail.
According to the case details, the body of Hasib Humayun Prince, a Jagannath University third-year student of Statistics Department, was recovered from a CNG filling station in Rupganj of Narayanganj on October 5, 2008, hours after he left his Azimpur house with one of the convicts Meraj.
The case statement said the accused Kamal Hossain had killed Hasib with the help of the other convicts as the victim obstructed him from having an extra-marital affair.
Victim’s father Kanchan Hossain Talukdar filed a murder case with Rupganj police station, accusing unknown people in this connection. Later, Criminal Investigation Department Sub-Inspector Pravat Kumar Nandi pressed the charge sheet, accusing the eight people with Narayanganj court on August 5, 2010. The case was later transferred to Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal 2 on September, 2011.
One of the accused, Miraz, is absconding from the beginning of the case.
A total of 29 out of 41 prosecution witness was examined by the court.
Meanwhile, Hasib’s mother Hasina Aktar expressed her dissatisfaction over the verdict and said she will appeal to the High Court against the verdict.