Gazipur court orders death sentences for four in 2006 murder of businessman

Four men have been sentenced to death in Gazipur for killing a businessman to extort money.

Gazipur Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 22 May 2016, 08:54 AM
Updated : 22 May 2016, 08:54 AM

On the night of Jan 27, 2006, Moksed Ali Sentu was hacked to death at Tongi, a place in the district, after he refused to pay the money the miscreants demanded.
 
In its verdict, delivered on Sunday, the court of Gazipur’s Additional District and Sessions Judge found four people guilty of the murder and ordered the death penalty.
 
The convicts are Md Rubel alias Tiger Rubel, 35, ‘Babu’, 32, Ashraf Ali, 31, and ‘Soleman’, 31.
 
All of them are absconding, said Additional Public Prosecutor Md Makbul Hossain Kajal.
 
He said that each of the convicts have also been slapped a fine of Tk 10, 000 each and given 14 years rigorous imprisonment and another Tk 10,000 fine for a separate charge.