Tejgaon Trader Murder
Four to die, 3 others get life term
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced four people, including a listed criminal to death and three others to life in jail for killing a businessman of Tejgaon in the city in May, 2004.The convicts with death are 'Japani' Babu alias Akbar Ali, Mohammad Jahangir, Pial alias Hedayetul Islam and Montu while Rahim Gazi, Abul Bashar and Radi Babul were given life term imprisonment. Of them, Japani Babu, Jahangir, Rahim and Bashar were present in the court while others were tried in absentia. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 handed down the sentence in presence of six accused at a packed courtroom. The court acquitted Billal and Jewel, as the charges brought against them were not proved. The punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender and the convicts with death can appeal to the High Court against the verdict within 30 days from the day of receipt of the judgement copy, the court said. According to the prosecution, a group of miscreants led by Japani Babu picked up Sohel Rana from his residence at Indira Road and took him to Dhanmondi where they killed him and dumped the body there, as he refused to give extortion on May 14, 2004.
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