HC judgement stayed on Alam murder case

The chamber judge of the Appellate Division has stayed for six weeks the operation of Monday's High Court (HC) judgment on business tycoon M Alam murder case, reports UNB. The interim stay order came following a petition moved by the state as it prefers leave to appeal against the HC verdict that had acquitted 14 convicts, including eight who were given capital punishment for the murder of business tycoon M Alam in the city's Shyampur area nearly a decade ago. In the judgment, the HC commuted the capital punishment of three out of the 11 condemned convicts to life term imprisonment. Besides, six other convicts who were given different jail terms have also been acquitted by the HC. Business tycoon M Alam (64), and his three maids were killed at his New Jurain residence in the city's Shyampur on the night of January 2 in 2002. In July 2005, the trial court had sentenced two sons-in-law of the slain business tycoon and nine others to death for killing Alam and his three maids and six others to different jail terms.