7 to walk gallows for killing Khadem in Rangpur

Staff Correspondent, Rangpur: A court in Rangpur sentenced seven people to death in a case filed for killing of a khadem of a mazar (shrine) in Kawnia upazila of Rangpur.

Rangpur Special Judge Naresh Chandra Sarker passed the order on Sunday noon.

The court also acquitted six more people in the murder case.

The convicts were present in the court.

A group of assailants slaughtered Khadem of Tepamadhupur ‘Mazar' (shrine) Rahamat Ali, 60, of village Tepamadhupur under Kawnia upazila while he was returning home from a local Bazar at night on November 10, 2015.

Later, Shafikul Islam, son of the deceased, filed a murder case in this connection with Kawnia police station.


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