KISHOREGANJ, Oct 16 (UNB): A court sentenced on Tuesday four people to death and 21 others to life term imprisonment in a double murder case in 2012.
The condemned convicts are Alamin, Mizanur Rahman, Nazmul and Swapan of Joyka village in Karimganj upazila. The court also fined them Tk 0.5m each.
The lifers are Didar, Gias Uddin Sarkar, Habibur Rahman Habi, Dulal, Israil, Jashim Uddin, Rafiqul Islam, Islam Uddin, Shahab Uddin, Ashraf Uddin, Kanchan Mia, Alam, Selim, Lokman, Harun Mia, Kanchan, Sohel, Azad, Rukon Uddin, Ratan and Shamim.
All the convicts were fined Tk 0.5m each.
According to the prosecution, Kubad Mia and Zakarul had an altercation with the convicts over charging a mobile phone on August 24, 2012.
At one stage of altercation, both groups attacked each other, leaving Kubad and Zakarul dead on the spot.
Sujata Begum, wife of Kubad, filed a case against 27 people.
DB police submitted charge-sheet against 25 people.
