Five people have received the death penalty and two others got lifetime imprisonment, by a court in Natore, for killing a man in Singra upazila in 2004.
After examining all the records and witnesses, Natore additional district and session judge Mohammad Saifur Rahman Siddiq passed the verdict.
According to the prosecution, the convicts picked up lessee Abdul Kader Dudu from his house, on February 3 in 2004, because of a former disagreement. After that, they gunned him down and stabbed him to death at a local market.
The victim's wife filed a murder case to Singra Police Station the next day, reports UNB.
The guilty have been identified as: Hafizur Rahman, Bulu, Khalilur Rahman, Majibur Rahman Majid, and Monir Hossain—while the lifers are Abdul Hakim and Nazrul Islam.
Among the convicts, four are still on the run from the law.
