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Published: 06:19, 28 March 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
5 get death in journo Aftab Ahmed murder case

Aftab Ahmed

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court sentenced five persons to death and another to seven years imprisonment in the murder case of Ekushey Award winner journalist Aftab Ahmed.

Judge Abdur Rahman Sardar of Dhaka's Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 passed the order on Tuesday morning.

Aftab Ahmed was murdered at his own residence of the capital's West Rampura area on December 24, 2013. Following the day, police recovered the body with the hands and legs tied up with ropes.

After investigation, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) pressed charges against six persons including Aftab's driver Md Humayun Kabir on March 25, 2014.

Aftab Ahmed who launched his media career with Daily Ittefaq in 1964 earned  Ekushey Award for his outstanding achievements in photography in 2006.


risingbd/Dhaka/Mar 28, 2017/A K Azad

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