Two to die, four get life in prison for murders in two districts

NARAYANGANJ, July 02 (UNB): A court here on Monday sentenced two people to death for killing a minor boy in 2012.

The convicts are Mohiuddin Hasnat and Saiful Islam. Of them, Mohiuddin's trial was held in absentia.

According to the prosecution, Jharna Begum, wife of Tofajjal Hossain, a resident of Manipur in Dhaka's Mirpur area had picked up a quarrel with her daughter and son-in-law Mahiuddin Hasnat over a trifling matter in August, 2012.

Angered by the incident, Hasnat along with his accomplices abducted Ashiqur Rahman Rifat (11), son of Tofajjal and took him to Navana Bhuiya City in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj where they killed Rifat by slitting his throat after tying up his hands and legs on August 10, 2012.

Siddhirganj Police recovered the throat-slit body of Rifat.

Meanwhile, a Manikganj court on Monday convicted four people for killing a young man in Shibalaya Upazila in 2014 and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

The convicts are Sujon Miah (22), son of Mohammad Hossain, Suruj Miah (19), son of Zindar Miah, Muktar Hossain (32), son of Bakkar Hossain, and Abu Taleb (45), son of Mohammad Ali of Teuta village in the upazila.

The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer two years more in prison.