A Natore court on Thursday sentenced a local leader of Awami League (AL) to life-term imprisonment for killing a leader of AL's student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on 2022.
Rajshahi Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Muhammad Mohiduzzaman also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, he has to suffer one year more in jail.
The convict is Muhammad Asaduzzaman, former Chairman of Naldanga upazila parishad and president of AL's upazila committee.
According to the prosecution, the convict along with his two brothers beat Zamiul Alim, assistant general secretary of the upazila unit BCL, and his father Farhad Shah, residents of Ramsha Kazipur village under the upazila, indiscriminately during an arbitration meeting in Amtali Bazar area on September 19, 2022, leaving them critically injured. Later, Zamiul succumbed to his injuries at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on September 23.
Zahanara Begum, mother of the deceased, lodged a murder case with Naldanga police station on the same day accusing three persons.
Police submitted charge sheet against them on January 31 last.
The court, however, acquitted brothers of the convict - Faisal Shah and Alim Al Razi as charges brought against them could not be proved.
