Five get life in jail for killing company official in Khulna

KHULNA, Apr 05 (UNB): A Khulna court sentenced on Tuesday five people to life imprisonment for killing a senior executive of a private company in 2012.

The court also imposed a fine of Tk 10,000 on each of the convicts -- Mehedi Hasan Starling, Md Ariful Haque Sajal, Nahid Reza Rana alias Lezar Rana, Md Dalim Sikder alias Amir Sikder Dalim, and Sajal Mollah.

Of them, Mehedi Hasan is the son of the owner of Modern Seafood Industries, the company whose executive was murdered.

Khulna sessions judge Md Shahidul Islam, however, acquitted four other accused in the case.