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A Meherpur court on Tuesday sentenced three people to death and two others to three years' imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016.
The condemned convicts are Alamgir Hossain, Mamun Hossain and Wasim Ali while those got three years in prison are Firoj Hossain and Kablu Islam. The duo was also fined Tk 20,000.
Additional District and Session's Court Judge Md Nurul Islam handed down the verdict, reports UNB.
According to the prosecution, the convicts hijacked the auto-rickshaw of Enayet Hossain Khokon, son of Jalil Khan, and strangulated him to death at Tengramari in Sadar upazila on October 27, 2016.