A court in Tangail today (June 30) sentenced four people to life-term imprisonment each for killing a man in Dhanbari upazila of the district in 2018.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Mahmudul Hasan handed down the verdict for killing man named Ismail.

The convicts were identified as Samsu, 53, Lutfur Rahman, 41, Naresh Robi Das, 39, and Nazrul, 32. All of them were the residents of Narilla village in Dhanbari upazila.

The court also fined each of them Taka 50,000, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.

According to prosecution, on May 17 in 2018, the convicts killed Ismail Hossain at Norilla over previous enmity and left his body in a ditch beside Narilla College.

Being informed, police recovered his body on May 19, 2018, two days after the killing.

On May 20, 2018, the victim's brother filed a case with Dhanbari Thana. Later, police pressed charge-sheet accusing the four in the court.

Testifying witnesses and evidence, the court found them guilty and handed down the punishment in presence of the convicts, said Additional Public Prosecutor Monirul Islam Khan.

BDST: 1846 HRS, JUNE 30, 2024
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