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A Chattogram court has sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city’s Sadarghat area, reports bdnews24.com.
Chattogram Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Begum Sirajam Munira delivered the verdict in the case on Sunday.
The death row convicts have been identified as Md Rubel, 27, and Md Abbas, 30. Rubel is absconding, but Abbas was present in court to hear the verdict and was sent to jail afterwards.
Rubel lived in the Karnaphuli Colony in Chattoram’s Abhimitra Ghat area, while Abbas lived in the Belal Colony area of the Sadarghat Thana.
“The court sentenced the two suspects to death under Section 302 of the Penal Code. Both of the convicts have also been fined Tk 20,000,” said the court’s Additional Public Prosecutor Dirghatama Barua.
The two suspects also received a three-year prison sentence under Section 201 for hiding the body.
The court acquitted Farhad Hossain, who bought the gold ornaments stolen in the robbery as he was not found to be involved in the killing.