A Correspondent :
A court here on Sunday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment and another to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for killing a man in 1996.
The court also fined the lifer Ramjan Ali Tk one lakh, in default, to suffer five years more rigorous imprisonment.
Another convict Nanaiya alias Dalya, who was sentenced to10-year rigorous imprisonment, was fined Tk 50,000.
According to the prosecution, the convicts killed Mohammad Lokman, a resident of Fatikchhari upazila, over previous enmity on October 22, 1996.
A case was filed with Fatikchhari Police Station in this connection on October 23, accusing five people.
Police submitted a charge-sheet against the five people after investigating the incident on February 20, 1997.
One of the accused named Nur Hossain died during the trial. After examining witnesses and documents, Judge Munsi Abdul Majid of Chittagong Additional District and Sessions Judge Court handed down the verdict and acquitted two other accused- Nurul Alam Sawdagarh and Mohammad Yunus, of the case.
