UNB, Dhaka :
The High Court on Monday upheld the trial court’s verdict that had awarded death sentence to a man and life-term jail to another for killing a schoolboy after abduction for ransom in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail.
A bench of Justice Bhabani Prasad Singh and Justice
Mostafa Jaman Islam passed the order following a petition filed by the convicts.
Earlier on December 30, 2010, a Tangail court sentenced Bakul to death and Selim to life term imprisonment in the murder case.
On March 23, 2003, the convicts kidnapped Mamun, a class III student of Trimohon village in the district and demanded Tk 3 lakh from his family members for his release. As his family failed to pay the money the kidnappers killed the boy.
Later, Mamun’s body was recovered from Bakul’s house.
The High Court on Monday upheld the trial court’s verdict that had awarded death sentence to a man and life-term jail to another for killing a schoolboy after abduction for ransom in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail.
A bench of Justice Bhabani Prasad Singh and Justice
Mostafa Jaman Islam passed the order following a petition filed by the convicts.
Earlier on December 30, 2010, a Tangail court sentenced Bakul to death and Selim to life term imprisonment in the murder case.
On March 23, 2003, the convicts kidnapped Mamun, a class III student of Trimohon village in the district and demanded Tk 3 lakh from his family members for his release. As his family failed to pay the money the kidnappers killed the boy.
Later, Mamun’s body was recovered from Bakul’s house.
