10 get RI in Jamalpur

JAMALPUR, May 16 (UNB) : A court here Sunday convicted 10 people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment in a murder case and in another count seven years each in abduction case. The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer one year more RI. The convicts were identified as Abdus Sattar, Kalam, Yusuf Ali, Azim Uddin, Gani Miah, Mohammad Ali, Abdul Haque, Moksed Ali, Iman Hossain and his wife Mazeda Begum. According to the prosecution the convicts abducted Hanif Ali, son of late Amin Ali of Kutuberchar village in Dewanganj Upazila over previous enmity on June 8, 2005. Two days later, police recovered Hanif's body from nearby Boral river. Later, the deceased's elder brother filed an abduction and murder case in this connection. Later, police after preliminary investigation submitted charge sheet against 10 accused. After examining the records and witnesses Additional District and Sessions Judge Ratneswar Bhattacharya pronounced the verdict in the crowded courtroom.