UNB, Rajshahi :
A speedy tribunal here on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to three people and life term imprisonment to one for killing a school boy after abduction in Rajshahi on December 20, 2014.
The condemned convicts are Majedur Rahman Sagor,19, son of Abul Kashem, Nazmul Haque, 20, son of Hazrat Ali and Ripon Sarkar Liton, 20, son of Abdul Razzak while the lifer is Asinur Begum, 32 of the area.
Public prosecutor of the case Entazul Haque Babu said Rajshahi Speedy Tribunal Judge Justice Shireen Kabita Akhtar handed down the verdict on the presence of the convicts around 3:00pm.
According to the prosecution, the convicts abducted Fazle Hossain Rabbi, a third grade student of Berabari Government Primary School and son of Ali Hossain, a resident of Berabari area in Mohanpur upazila of the district on December 20, 2014. Later they killed Rabbi and dumped the body at a paddy field keeping it in a sack. They demanded Tk10 lakh as ransom from the victim’s father for his (Rabbi’s) release.
Ali Hossain filed general diary with Mohanpur Police Station on that day and police took it as a case on December 24. Police recovered beheaded body of Rabbi from the paddy field on December 26 of the year.
