Five BCL activists sentenced to life term for murder
Friday, 16 November 2007
CHITTAGONG, Nov 15 (UNB): Five Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists, four in absentia, were Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment for sensational murder of a rival within the party in the city eight years ago.
Rupak Dev was handed down the punishment while four other convicts Didarul Alam Didar, Saifuddin, Ayub and Prajjut Rakhsit remained fugitive.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer two years more rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, the accused abducted Abdus Sattar, Joint Secretary of BCL Jamalkhan ward unit, from a shop at CDA Market in the city's Kazir Deury on October 5, 1997 following intra-party conflict.
The police recovered the bullet-riddled body of Sattar from Dhebar Par of Lalkhan Bazar on the following day.
Rupak Dev was handed down the punishment while four other convicts Didarul Alam Didar, Saifuddin, Ayub and Prajjut Rakhsit remained fugitive.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer two years more rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, the accused abducted Abdus Sattar, Joint Secretary of BCL Jamalkhan ward unit, from a shop at CDA Market in the city's Kazir Deury on October 5, 1997 following intra-party conflict.
The police recovered the bullet-riddled body of Sattar from Dhebar Par of Lalkhan Bazar on the following day.