A Gazipur court yesterday sentenced three people to death penalty for killing a schoolboy after abduction 20 years back.
Sessions Judge of Gazipur M Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan handed down the verdict on Ataur Rahman, Alam Hossain and Yusuf, residents of Saldai village. The court also fined them Tk10,000 each. Among the convicts, Yusuf was tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, the convicts abducted Gias Uddin, a resident of Saldai village and also a student of Class VII, on September 5,1996 and demanded Tk50,000 as ransom.
Following the incident, victim’s father Abdul Baten Bepari filed a case with Kapasia police station.
Being failed to realise ransom money, the trio killed Gias and dumped his body into a water body.
Police recovered the skeleton of the boy from the water body after three months of his death.
Later, police arrested Ataur, Alam, Yusuf, Judge Miah and his wife Someja Khatun and submitted a charge sheet against them.
The court acquitted Judge Miah and his wife Someja Khatun as allegations brought out against them could not be proved during prosecution.
