A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced a student of Dhaka City College to jail until death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing Ayaz Haq, a student of Government Laboratory High School, in 2014.
Injamamul Islam alias Jisan was sentenced to jail until death while Tauhidul Islam, Mashiur Rahman Araf, Tauhidul Islam Shuvo, Abu Saleh MdNasim and Arif Hossain Regan got life term.
Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of the Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka handed down the
sentence in presence of Jisan and Tauhidul at a packed courtroom; rest of the convicts are absconding.
The punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the judge said.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 10,000, in default of which they have to serve three more months in jail.
Earlier, the prosecution and defence completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 20 prosecution witnesses including complainant of the case.
On June 9, 2014, Ayaz Haq was hacked to death during a clash between students of Dhaka City College over a football tournament.
Following the incident, Ayaz’s father Advocate Shahidul Haq filed the case against six, including Jisan and Tauhidul Islam, with Dhanmondi Police Station.
Dhanmondi Police Station SI Sahidul Biswas on May 13, 2015 pressed charges against six, including Jisan. The court framed charges against the accused on November 24, 2016.
According to case documents, Ayaz’s elder brother, Ashdin Haq, a second-year student of science department of the City College, got into an altercation with the accused over the preparation and expenses of the City College friendly football tournament on June 9, 2014.
The accused hacked Ayaz to death at Jigatala in the capital in the afternoon that day. After that, Ayaz was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment where the doctors declared him dead.
