A tangail court sentenced three people to death and six others to different terms in jail for killing two fourth graders in Tangail's Mirzapur upazila.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Saud Hasan delivered the verdict at 12pm on Monday in presence of eight of the convicted while one remains absconding.
Among the convicted, the court delivered death penalty to Bahadur Miya, Milton and Rony Mia, confirmed Assistant Public Prosecutor Rafiqul Islam Khan Alo.
Of the six others convicted, Shahinur, Abdul Malek, and Johirul Islam were sentenced to jail until death, and Md Shamim, Arif, and Zakir Hossain were awarded life term in prison.
Nine of the five gave their confessional statement at court before the police pressed charges against all of them on June 8 of 2016.
On January 27 of 2016, the victims identified as Shakil and Imran, went missing after they went to visit a cultural program in the Haria Bohumukhi High School field in Mirzapur.
The next day, one of their abductors contacted an uncle of Shakil and Imran and demanded Tk1 lakh as ransom.
On January 29, police found their throat-slit bodies from a lemon field in Gumgram Bazar area in Mirzapur. Afterwards Shakil's mother filed a case in connection with the murders.
