A court in Chittagong yesterday sentenced four persons to death and two others to life-term imprisonment for killing a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver after snatching his vehicle in 2008.
The death penalty convicts are Nurul Alam, Abul Kalam, Md Rubel and Md Kawar while life-term jailed convicts are Ariful Islam and SM Naimuddin, said court sources.
Judge of Chittagong Public Security Tribunal Sayeda Hosne Ara handed down the verdict against the six persons after examining all the records and taking the deposition of 17 witnesses, said Public Prosecutor Md Jahangir Alam.
Of the condemned, Md Kasar and Md Rubel were behind the bar while two other convicts went into hiding after coming out from the jail on bail, he said.
The court also fined Tk50,000 each of the death penalty convicts while the life-term convicts were also fined with Tk50,000 each, in default to suffer six months more in imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, the convicts had hired a CNG-run auto rickshaw of Md Yusuf from Chandgaon area in the Chittagong city in a bid to visit Shrine of Baizid Bostami and Mohsen Awlia Mazar in Banshkhali upazila on May 3, 2008.
Later, the six had killed the driver Yusuf at Boalkhali upazila on the way to Banshkali and snatched his vehicle. Later, they dumped the body under a bridge at Gomdandi.
On the following day, deceased’s cousin Hatem Tai had lodged a murder case accusing six with Boalkhali police station.
The court farmed the charge sheet against them on January 29 in 2012.
