UNB, Chandpur :
A tribunal here on Wednesday convicted four people and sentenced them to 14 years imprisonment in a case filed for hurling acid on four people in 2001.
The convicts were identified as Monir Hosain, 25, his sister Hosne Ara Begum, 30, Kabil Mia, 26, and Suman Mia, 28 of East Islamabad village. The tribunal also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
According to the prosecution, there had been a longstanding enmity between Khalulur Rahman and Monir over a piece of land.
As a sequel to the enmity, Monir along with his associates hurled acid on Lucky Akter, 25 and Rahima Akter, 14, two daughters of Khalilur Rahman, Lucky’s husband Motiur Rahman, 40, and her daughter Jannatul Ferdous, 4, while sleeping at their house at East Islamabad village in Matlab North upazila on April 25, 2001, leaving them injured.
Khalilur Rahman then filed a case with Matlab North upazila, three days after the incident.
Police submitted chargesheet against the four accused on April 20, 2002.
After examining records and witnesses, Women and Child Repression Prevention Judge Abdul Mannan handed down the verdict.
A tribunal here on Wednesday convicted four people and sentenced them to 14 years imprisonment in a case filed for hurling acid on four people in 2001.
The convicts were identified as Monir Hosain, 25, his sister Hosne Ara Begum, 30, Kabil Mia, 26, and Suman Mia, 28 of East Islamabad village. The tribunal also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
According to the prosecution, there had been a longstanding enmity between Khalulur Rahman and Monir over a piece of land.
As a sequel to the enmity, Monir along with his associates hurled acid on Lucky Akter, 25 and Rahima Akter, 14, two daughters of Khalilur Rahman, Lucky’s husband Motiur Rahman, 40, and her daughter Jannatul Ferdous, 4, while sleeping at their house at East Islamabad village in Matlab North upazila on April 25, 2001, leaving them injured.
Khalilur Rahman then filed a case with Matlab North upazila, three days after the incident.
Police submitted chargesheet against the four accused on April 20, 2002.
After examining records and witnesses, Women and Child Repression Prevention Judge Abdul Mannan handed down the verdict.
