3 to die, 19 get life for murder
A court in Netrokona sentenced three people to death and nineteen others to life imprisonment in a murder case.
Netrokona District Sessions Judge KM Rasheduzzaman Raza passed the order around 11:30am on Tuesday.
The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each.
The death-row convicts are Osman Gani of Netrokona’s Khaliajuri upazila, Taher and Kawsar Ahmed of Sunamganj.
According to the prosecution, Chayan Sarker, 25, was killed by some dacoits in his home on September 4, 2011.
Later his father Monoronjon Sarker filed a case against some unidentified people.
On January 24, 2013, police submitted the charge sheet to the court accusing 23 people in the case.