Six jailed for life for Lakshmipur schoolboy murder
A court in Lakshmipur on Thursday sentenced six people to life-term imprisonment in a schoolboy murder case filed in 2014.
District and Sessions Judge Court Judge Md Rahibul Islam delivered the verdict in presence of one convict Ilius.
Other convicts are –Masudur Rahman alias Kala Masud; Nur Mohammad Liton; Saddam, Anwar Hossain Saddam, Shahriar Rashed. All are now on the run.
The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each and in default, they will have to serve another year in prison. The court also acquitted another accused Taju Bhuiyan as the allegation brought against him was not proved.
According to the case documents, on April 21, 2014, the convicts wearing mask stormed into the house of one Mamunur Rashid Babul and ransacked furniture and other valuables, Babul’s mother and his sister-in-law fled the scene but his nephew Shimul, a eighth grader of Protapganj High School, protested the convict.
They took Shimul to a primary school and shot him to death.
Babul, who was admitted to a hospital for treatment earlier, field a case after 14 days later of the incident on May 5, 2014.
Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) police inspector in Noakhali Md Anwar ul Islam submitted a charge sheet on March 4, 2020.
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