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7-murder: Nur, RAB officials among 26 to die

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Published: 04:20, 16 January 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
7-murder: Nur, RAB officials among 26 to die

Staff Correspondent, Narayanganj: A court in Narayanganj has sentenced 26 people including former NCC councillor Nur Hossain and dismissed Rab officials Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana to death in the sensational seven-murder case.

 

The court of Narayanganj District Sessions Judge Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the verdict on Monday morning amid high security.

 

Twenty-three, including Nur Hossain and dismissed Rab officials were present on the dock during the pronunciation of the verdict while 12 are on the run.

 

The other condemned convicts are Mizanur Rahman Dipu, Abdul Alim, Mohinuddin Munshi, Lans Nayek Hira Miah, Sipahi Abu Toiyob, Selim, Sanaullah Sana, Shah Jahan, Jamal Uddin, Asad-uj-jaman Noor, Purnendu Bala, ROG Arif Hossain, Al Amin, Tajul Islam, Enamul, Belal Hossain, Shihab Uddin, Mortuja Jaman Churchill, Ali Mohammad, Abul Basher, Raham Ali, Emdadul Haque.

 

The court also jailed nine other accused for seven to 17 years’ of imprisonment.

 

Seven people, including Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, were abducted from the Dhaka-Narayanganj link road on April 27, 2014. Later, their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya.

 

A total of 35 people including the main accused Nur Hossain were indicted in the two cases filed over the incident-- one by Nazrul's family and the other by Chandan's family. Of them, 26 are Rab men while eight others are reportedly associates of Nur Hossain.


After the investigation, which took almost a year, police pressed charges against Nur Hossain, three senior officers of the Narayanganj-based RAB battalion and 31 others.


On November 30 last year, a Narayanganj court fixed today (January 16, 2017) for delivering its verdict on the sensational seven murders after the completion of the defence arguments in favour of 23 arrested accused and 12 fugitives.

 

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