Our Correspondent :
A Kishoreganj court has sentenced four people to death and jailed four others for life for killing former public works employee Abdur Rahman in 2006.
Kishoreganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Abdur Rahim delivered the verdict on Monday.
The convicts sentenced to death are Kashem, Nazrul, Liton and Sattar, all residents of Singua village in Karimganj Upazila. The court handed life-imprisonment to Siraj, Khokon, Shahed and Kantu.
The convicts were present in the court to hear the verdict. They were also fined Tk 100,000 each.
Abdur Rahman was hacked to death over a dispute on April 23, 2006, according to the case dossier.
Rahman’s wife Nurunnahar was also injured in the incident. She filed a case against eight people with Karimganj Police Station over the murder.
The court opened trial in the case after police had pressed charges against the accused in 2008.
