7 sentenced to death for Khulna double murder

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A court in Khulna on Tuesday sentenced 7 people to death and fined each of them Tk 50,000 in a double murder case in Daulatpur.

The verdict was delivered by Judge Sumi Ahmed of Khulna Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court-1.

Bench assistant Shuvendu Roy Chowdhury later confirmed the verdict.

The convicts are Imamul Kabir Jibon (absconding), Raj, Shahid Shahariar Mithun, Tushar Gazi, Shoeb Suman (absconding), Shakil (absconding) and Tuhin.

Two accused, Kuti and Shamim, were acquitted.

According to the case, on January 3, 2009, armed attackers shot and hacked Parvez Hawlader near Deyana Sabuj Sangha field in Daulatpur.

When locals tried to save him, the attackers opened fire on them too and several people, including Suparna Saha, were shot.

Suparna later died at the hospital.

Parvez’s father, Nizam Uddin, filed a murder case the following day against 7 people. - UNB