Four sentenced to death over 19-year-old murder in Cox’s Bazar

A Chattogram court has sentenced four people to death in connection with the murder of a man over a land dispute in Cox’s Bazar’s Kutubdia 19 years ago.

Chattogram District and Sessions Judge Md Hemayet Uddin delivered the verdict on Wednesday afternoon.

Public Prosecutor of the Chattogram District Court Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury Razzak told bdnews24.com that the court ordered the death penalty for all four after the charges were proven, and fined each of them Tk 20,000.

The victim, Ershadul Habib Rubel, was killed on the evening of Oct 15, 2006.

[Updates to follow]