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A Jashore court on Sunday sentenced three people to death and another to two years in jail in a case over the killing of a three-wheeler driver in Bagherpara upazila of the district around five years back.
Jashore Additional District and Sessions Judge of the second court, Jayanti Rani Das passed the order in the presence of one of the death-row convicts; said the court’s Additional Public Prosecutor SM Abdur Razzak.
Those sentenced to death are Jewel Khan, of Rampur village in Shalikha upazila of Magura, Harun-or-Rashid, of the same upazila, and Alamin, a resident of Uttar Lalitadah village in Jashore Sadar, as per a UNB report.
They were fined Tk 40,000 each, while only Harun was present during the delivery of the judgment.
Besides, Russell Mollah, son of Sultan Mallik of Shabuj Nagar village in Pirojpur Sadar, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
He was also fined Tk 10,000, in default of which he will suffer three months’ more in jail.
According to the case statement, three-wheeler driver Al Amin, a resident of Harishpur village under the Shalikha upazila of Magura, went missing since he went out of home for work on December 9 in 2021.
His vehicle was recovered by Chasda police in Jashore a day after his missing.
On the same day, locals spotted his body lying along a road in Budhopur village under Bagherpara upazila.
On December 11 of the same year, the victim’s father, Mostafizur Rahman filed a case accusing some unidentified people with the police station concerned.
On December 25, police arrested four accused and submitted the chargesheet against them on December 14 in 2022.
The convicts hijacked the vehicle after killing Al Amin and sold it to Russell, according to the chargesheet.