A Pabna court has sentenced eight people to life term imprisonment and acquitted three others in a case filed for killing three policemen.
The Speedy Tribunal in Rajshahi Anup Kumar passed the order on Wednesday around 11 am.
The eight convicts are - Zahurul Islam, Md Hashem alias Khokon alias Bachchu, Joson Mollah alias Jabed, Nijam Fakir, Md Rafiq, Aiub Ali, Sukur Ali Sarder and Zahangir Alam alias Kana Alam.
The court also fined them Tk 10, 000 each, in default of which they will have to spend one year more in the prison.
Fifteen people were made accused in the case but four among the charge-sheeted accused were killed earlier in separate gunfights with the law enforcers.
On July 10, 2010, outlaws shot dead sub-inspector Md Kafil Uddin, nayek Abdul Wahed and constable Shafique Ahmed of Dhalarchar police camp at Daspara in Bera upazila in Pabna.