Six to die for Bagerhat murders

A court in Bagerhat has ordered death penalty for six and life imprisonment for seven others for killing three security personnel in 2006.

Bagerhat Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 19 August 2014, 07:34 AM
Updated : 19 August 2014, 09:50 AM

The court of Bagerhat District and Sessions Judge SM Solaiman gave the verdict on Tuesday over the 2006 killings of two Coastguards and a RAB personnel.

It has acquitted two others as charges against them could not be proven.

Those awarded death sentences are Rafikul Sheikh, Kuddus Sheik, Idris
Sheikh, Alkat Fakir and Elias Sheikh.

The court ordered life sentence for Akram Sheikh, Alam Sheikh, Badshah Sheikh Jamal Sheikh, Kamal alias Suman Sheikh and Aslam Sheikh.
All of the convicts are absconding, prosecutor Sheikh Mohammad Ali told bdnews24.com.

According to the case details, a joint operation by RAB and Coast Guard was conducted on Dec 1, 2006, on river Pashur adjoining the Sundarbans.
Security forces were tipped off about a group of robbers' gathering in the area.

A shootout erupted between the robbers and the security personnel as the Coastguards and RAB personnel tried to encircle the robbers.

Finally, the security personnel managed to corner the robbers' vessel and boarded it.

A scuffle broke out as the robbers dived into the river with Coast Guard personnel MH Kabir, MA Islam and RAB personnel PC Kanchan.

Bodies of the three security personnel were recovered from the river the next day.