Dhaka 5th Additional District and Sessions Judge court today convicted and sentenced three individuals to death in a murder case. Photo: BSS

DHAKA, Jan 16, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today convicted and sentenced three people to death in a case lodged over the murder of one Jahid Hossain in Savar in 2013.

Judge Israt Jahan Munni of Dhaka 5th Additional District and Sessions Judge Court pronounced the judgment, also fining the convicts Taka 10,000 each.

The three death-row-convicts are Qazi Ahsan Takbir, Md Kazal and Lal Chan.

Of the three convicts, Md Kazal was produced before the court during the pronouncement of the judgment, and he was sent back to jail with a conviction warrant. Two other convicts were tried in absentia as they are yet to be arrested.

According to the case documents, Jahid Hossain had a long-standing enmity with the convicts. On July 17, 2013, convict Lal Chan took him to the Hijlapara area of Arapara in Savar and hacked him indiscriminately along with other killers. Jahid was rushed to Savar Enam Medical College Hospital, where he succumbed from his injuries.

Victim's father Md Anwar Hossain filed the case with Savar Model Police Station. Police on August 30, 2015, filed charge-sheet against three and the court on March 2, 2016, framed charges against them and initiated the trial officially.

The court today came up with the judgment after examining 15 of the total 16 witnesses on different hearing dates.