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Download PDF A Dhaka court yesterday awarded death sentence to five persons including a woman for killing a jewellery trader in the capital’s Uttara area in October, 2006.
The convicts are Shahdat Hossain Liton, 34, his brother Al Mamun, 26, Liton’s girlfriend Shamsunnahar Sheuli, 29, Abu Syed, 30, and Farhad Alam Hira, 26.
Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Judge Anwar Hossain pronounced the verdict in presence of the convicts at the jam-packed courtroom.
The judge also sentenced them to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for destroying evidence.
The parents of slain jewellery trader Turya Ghosh Roni could not be present at the court due to illness.
Turya’s uncle and other relatives, who were present there, expressed their satisfaction over the verdict.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments. The court recorded statements of 35 prosecution witnesses during the trial.
According to the prosecution, miscreants led by Sheuli kidnapped Turya on October 29, 2006 to get ransom from his family.
Turya’s father Jagannath Ghosh filed an abduction case with Uttara Police Station against Sheuli and four others on November 7 the same year.
Later, Rab members on December 11 recovered Turya’s mutilated body dumped in a low-lying area at Rampura.
Sheuli and others were arrested from different places in the city. Four of them gave confessional statements to magistrate.
They told the magistrate that although Turya’s family provided them with ransom of Tk 10 lakh and 10 tolas of gold ornaments, they killed him fearing arrest.
After conducting investigation, Detective Branch (DB) of police pressed charges against the five on March 3 last year.
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