A court in Sirajganj has sentenced a man to death and seven others to life term imprisonment for killing a woman and her son in Ullapara upazila of the district in 2019 over previous enmity.
District Additional and Sessions Judge Mohammad Erfan Ullah delivered the verdict on Tuesday.
The death-row convict was -- Hafijul Islam, 40, a resident of Purba Moheshpur village of the upazila.
The convicts, who got life term, were Delowar Hossain alias Dulal, Bachchu Mia, Md Dulal Sarker, Masud Ullah alias Raton, Rahomot Ullah Panna, Md Rafiqul islam and Md Bodiuzzaman, residents of the same village.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 1lakh each, in default, to suffer one more year in jail.
According to the prosecution documents, on June 26 in 2019, the convicts hacked the woman Rizia Khatun and her son Altab Hossain Mukul to death in the village over previous enmity.
Mukul's wife filed a case accusing some unnamed people with Ullapara Police Station. Police pressed the charge sheet on October 13 in 2020.
