Two to walk gallows for killing RU teacher

RAJSHAHI, May 08 (UNB): A tribunal here on Tuesday sentenced two people to death and three others to life term imprisonment for killing Rajshahi University teacher Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee in 2016.
After examining records and witnesses, Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Shirin Kabita Akhter handed down the verdict in presence of the three convicts on the doc.
The condemned convicts are Shariful Islam, a student of RU English Department, and Maskawat Hossain Sakib alias Abdullah, hailing from Bogura. Shariful was tried in absentia.
The lifers are Rahmatullah, a student of Rajshahi University, Abdus Sattar and his son Ripon Ali of Poba upazila.
According to the prosecution, on November 08, 2016, police pressed charges against eight members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the case more than six months after the killing.
Of them, Badal, Nazrul and Osman were killed in gunfights with police at different times and Shariful has been on the run.