A tribunal here on Thursday convicted seven people and sentenced two of them to death and one to life term imprisonment in the case for killing blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider. The death convicts are Faisal Din Nayeem alias Dwip and Redwanul Azad Rana while the lifer is Maksudul Hasan Anik. Faisal and Redwanul were fined Tk10,000 each while Maksudul fined Tk10,000, in default, to serve one year more jail. Besides, three more– Mohammad Ehsan Reza Rumman, Mohammad Nayeem Shikder alias Erat and Nasir Imtiaz–got 10 years behind bars. They were fined Tk5,000 each, in default of which they will have to suffer six months more jail. Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Mufti Mohammad Jasim Uddin Rahamani was awarded five year’s jail term while Sadman Yeasir Mahmud got three years’ jail. Mufti Jasim and Sadman were fined Tk2,000 each, in default, to suffer two months’ jail. Judge Syed Ahmed of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 handed down the verdict. Seven of the convicts were present in the dock during pronouncement of the judgment while Redwanul was tried in absentia. On December 28, the tribunal-3 fixed the date for delivery of the verdict today after conclusion of the law point arguments from both the prosecution and defence sides. Earlier on May 11, Judge Ruhul Amin of Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court had transferred the case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 for its quick disposal. On March 19, the court indicted the eight in the blogger Rajib murder case. On February 15, 2013, Ahmed Rajib Haidar, an activist of Ganajagarn Mancha, was stabbed to death near his house at Mirpur Palash Nagar in the capital. — Dhaka, 31 (UNB)
