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High Court urged to uphold death penalty of 152 BDR mutiny convicts
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today prayed to the High Court to uphold the lower court verdict that sentenced 152 convicts for killing 74 people including 57 army officials in the 2009 Pilkhana mutiny.
74 people, including 57 army officials, were slain in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny on February 25-26, 2009 at the force's Pilkhana headquarters in Dhaka.
In November 2013, a Dhaka court sentenced 150 soldiers of BDR, now Border Guard Bangladesh, and 2 civilians to death, and jailed 161 for life for their involvement.
It also gave rigorous imprisonment, ranging from three to 10 years, to 256, mostly BDR soldiers. The remaining 277 were acquitted.
A total of 844 people, 823 of them BDR personnel, stood trial in Bangladesh's biggest criminal case in terms of the number of accused and convicts.
Source: The Daily Star, November 30, 2015 (wr)
Cop among 3 to walk gallows for killing 9-yr-old boy
A Sylhet court today awarded death penalty to three persons including a sacked police constable for killing nine-year-old Abu Sayeed for ransom.
Judge Abdur Rashid of Sylhet Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal also fined the condemned convicts Tk 1 lakh each.
The convicts are Abdur Rakib, general secretary of Sylhet district unit Olama League, Ebadur Rahman, a sacked constable of Sylhet Airport Police Station, and Ataur Rahman Geda, a police informant.
The court also acquitted Mahib Hossain Masum, publicity secretary of the district unit of Olama League, of the case as allegation against him was not proved.
The convicts abducted Abu Sayeed, son of Andul Matin, on March 11 for a ransom of Tk 5 lakh and later killed him for recognizing the policeman.
On March 12, Ebadur confessed to the crime before a magistrate. 2 days later police recovered Sayeed's body from the attic of the building where both Ebadur and Sayeed resided.
Source: The Daily Star, November 30, 2015 (wr)
Munshiganj court sentences 2 to death, 2 to life in jail for 2009 murder
A Munshiganj court has sentenced 2 persons to death and 2 others to life imprisonment in the Riaz Byapari murder case.
District and Sessions Judge Md Shawkat Ali Chowdhury delivered the verdict on Sunday afternoon in a packed courtroom.
Those given the death penalty were Ripon Khan, 28, and Md Shamim, 26. The 2 who were awarded life in prison were Shah Jalal, 32, and Monjil Mia, 31.
The victim and the convicts, all labourers, were from the district's Gajaria Upazila.
After the verdict, Public Prosecutor Abdul Motin said only Monjil Mia was still absconding.
Quoting the case details, Motin said the convicts strangled Riaz to death on Mar 14, 2009 following a dispute. Riaz's body was recovered from a paddy field the next day.
His father Golboksh Byapari filed the murder case against the 4 on that day.
Byapari on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the verdict and called for speedy execution of the convicts.
Source: bdnews24, November 30, 2015 (wr)
Court sentences 4 to death for 2008 Boalkhali murder
A Chittagong court has sentenced 4 men to death and 2 others to life in prison for the 2008 murder of an auto-rickshaw driver in Boalkhali Upazila.
Chittagong Divisional Public Security Tribunal's judge Syeda Hosne Ara delivered the verdict on Monday on the 7-year-old case.
Those given the death penalty were Nurul Alam, Abul Kalam, Md Kausar and Md Rubel. The 2 who were awarded life imprisonment were Ariful Islam and SM Noimuddin.
Only Kausar and Noimuddin are behind bars. The 4 others are still absconding.
According to case details, on May 3, 2008, the accused hired the auto-rickshaw from the port city's Bahaddarhat to go to Anwara.
They murdered the driver 'Yusuf' and made off with the 3-wheeler. Yusuf's body was dumped on a road in West Gomdondi area at Boalkhali.
The vehicle's owner later found it in Satkania, where police later arrested 5 of the accused.
Yusuf's cousin 'Hashem' filed the murder case at Boalkhali Police Station.
Police named the 6 convicted on Monday in their chargesheet in the case.
Public Prosecutor Md Jahangir Alam said 17 out of 27 witnesses in the case had deposed at court.
Source: bdnews24.com, November 30, 2015 (wr)
11 get death penalty for killing Jubo League leader
A Gazipur court has sentenced 11 persons to death for killing Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin Sarkar in 2003.
Judge Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan of Gazipur Additional District and Session Judge Court 1 pronounced the verdict on Monday afternoon.
The court also fined Tk10,000 each.
Victim's elder brother Milon Sarkar said the convicts hacked his brother to death in broad daylight when he was chatting his friends at a field near Bolkhela Bazar in Kapasia upazila on August 17, 2003.
Later, Milon Sarkar filed a case against the convicts over the murder of his brother.
Source: Dhaka Tribune, November 30, 2015 (wr)
