4 get life imprisonment for murder in Chattogram

A Chattogram court on Monday sentenced four people to life imprisonment for killing an expatriate in 1999.

Chattogram Additional District and Session Judge Court-3 Judge Ferdous Wahid handed down the punishment.

The convicts are—Md Nur Islam, his son Osman goni, Sarwar Kamal and Abbas Uddin. The court also fined them Tk 20,000 in default to suffer two years more in rigorous imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, Nurul Kabir, an expatriate of Adhunagar Rustompara in Lohagara upazila, took his nephew Islam, son of Nur Islam to abroad.

After returning to the country, Nurul demanded Tk 1.70 lakh from his brother Nur for taking his son abroad by expending money. The two brothers had been at loggerheads over the issue.

On December 6, 1999, Nur along with his sons swooped on the house of Nurul and hit him with a sharp weapon. Later he succumbed to his injuries at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.

Khaleda Yeasmin, wife of Nurul, filed a case with Chattogram Judicial Court.

On December 21, police submitted chargesheet against six people.

After examining records and witnesses, the court handed down the punishment and acquitted two others as allegations brought against them could not be proved, reports UNB.