10 sentenced to death for killing Amzad chairman in Chattogram

A Chattogram tribunal on Sunday sentenced 10 people to death and five others to life-term imprisonment for killing Awami League leader Amzad Hossain, reports UNB. 

Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge AKM Mozammel Haque handed down the verdict, 21 years after the murder.

The convicts are - Manik, Tarek, Faruk Ahmed, Bashir Ahmed, Idris, Zahed, Rashed, Nasir Uddin and Jashim Uddin of Sonakania in Satkania upazila. Another convict Lutfur Rahman Lutu died during trial proceedings.

The tribunal also acquitted four people as charges brought against them could not be proven.

According to the prosecution, Amzad Hossain, Chairman of Sonakania Union and an Awami League leader of Satkania upazila, was shot dead by the convicts on October 4, 1999.

Rawshan Akter, wife of the UP chairman, filed a case at Satkania Police Station against 21 people.

Police on December 22, 2000, submitted chargesheet against 20 people. Of the accused, nine were tried in absentia.

On November 11, the court sent 10 convicts to jail after rejecting their bail petitions.

Rawshan said she was happy with the verdict. “I have been waiting for the verdict for the last 21 years,” she said.