Three get life for murder in Kushtia

Kushtia Correspondent: A district court has sentenced life term imprisonment to three persons of a family for killing a college student in Kushtia.

Judge Arup Kumar Goswami of Kushtia District and Sessions Judge’s court passed the verdict on Monday noon.

The court also fined them Tk20,000.

The convicts’ are- Mejbar Rahman, 60, hailing from Charbaniapara area in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia, his wife Ranjana Khatun, 50, and their son Roisuddin, 28. Of them, Roisuddin is absconding.

According to the court sources, on June 1 in 2012, Centering land dispute, two groups locked into a clash. At one stage, College student Abdul Gani, 24, son of one Sahidul Molla of Boaldah village in Kushtia sadar upazila, was hacked by the convicts in the clash and died on way to hospital. 

Later victim’s father Sahidul Mollah filed a murder case with Kushtia model police station mentioning five names.


risingbd/Kushtia/Nov 19, 2018/Kanchan Kumar/Nasim