13 people sentenced to death in Gazipur for murder

A Gazipur court on Monday sentenced 13 people to death in a case over killing a man in 1995. Among the 13, six people were tried in absentia. According to Gazipur Assistant Public Prosecutor Moqbul Hossain Kajol, the convicts killed Billal Hossain Bilu, a worker of National Jute Mills of Kaliganj, at Ishwarpur village under the district’s Kaliganj upazila. Later, Bilu’s wife filed a murder case with Kaliganj police station. After examining all the records and witnesses, Gazipur Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan of Court-1, handed down the verdict.