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Published : 14 May 2026, 11:08 PM
A Chattogram court has brought closure to a 23-year-old murder case, sentencing two men to death and three others to life imprisonment over a killing at Badamtali linked to a rejected marriage proposal.
Chattogram’s Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Muhammad Ali Akkas delivered the verdict on Thursday.
The death-row convicts are Jamal Uddin Jamal alias Mou and Ershad aka Hiru. Of them, Jamal is on the run.
Life imprisonment was given to Monir Hossain, Alamgir alias Angur aka Pichchi Alamgir and Rashed alias Hashi Miah. Monir is in hiding.
The court’s Bench Assistant Rakib Miah told bdnews24.com that Monir, Alamgir and Hashi were also fined Tk 20,000 each. In default, they will have to serve another year in prison.
According to the case dossier, Jamal had approached Idu Miah, an employee at a fish warehouse and resident of Badamtali, with a proposal to marry his sister.
However, Idu, who was from the same locality, declined the proposal.
On the afternoon of Jan 3, 2003, Idu’s body was discovered in a graveyard near his home, bearing a slit throat and multiple stab wounds across his body.
His brother Mohammad Kamal Uddin filed the murder case against unidentified people.
But police pressed charges against five people, highlighting the rejected marriage proposal.
The five people were indicted in 2006, leading to the verdict based on the testimony of nine individuals.
