A Bhola court has sentenced three men to death for killing of two brothers at Char fesson upazila in Bhola district in 2021.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Md. Shawkat Hossain delivered the verdict on Wednesday, finding the three men guilty of the murder of Dulal Chandra Shil and Tapan Chandra Shil.
The convicts are Md Billal Faraji, 37, Md Salauddin Boyati, 30, and Md Shoriful Islam Munshi, 32, to death for their direct involvement in the murders.
Two other suspects, Abu Majhi, 59, and Abul Kashem, 26, were sentenced to six and five months in jail but were acquitted as they had already served their time in custody.
According to the court's investigation, the motive behind the murders was a land deal. The victims, who had planned to permanently settle in India, had agreed to sell 46.6 decimal of land to the main accused, Md Billal for Tk 20 lakh.
Billal had paid an advance of Tk 4 lakh 60 thousand taka and had taken possession of a portion of the land. After the brothers returned from India to collect the remaining payment, Billal conspired to kill them to avoid paying the rest of the money.
On December 31, 2020, the accused took sign in the land paper from the victim but did not pay them.
On April 7, 2021, the accused murdered the brothers, burned their bodies and disposed of their heads in a toilet tank at Aslampur union in the upazila.
The severed heads were later found by police and DNA testing confirmed the identities of the victims. Later, the victim’s brother Nipen Chandra Sarkar filed a case against those individuals.
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