DHAKA, July 3, 2025 (BSS) – A court here today convicted and sentenced three people to life imprisonment in a case lodged over the murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella in 2015.

The convicts are- Tamjid Ahmed alias Rubel, Russel Chowdhury, and Minhajul Arefin alias Bhagne Russel. The court also fined them Taka 50,000 each or to suffer one more year behind bars in default, court clerk Golam Nabi told BSS.

Dhaka 3rd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Sheikh Samidul Islam pronounced the judgment this noon. 

The court also acquitted four people, BNP leader MA Qaium, his brother MA Matin, Sohel and Shakhawat Hossain of the charges.

Tavella, 50, then project manager of Profitable Opportunities for Food Security (Proofs), a project of Netherlands-based organisation ICCO Cooperation, was gunned down by unidentified assailants on the footpath of road number 90 in Gulshan-2 on September 28, 2015.

A Dhaka court on October 25, 2016, framed charges against BNP leader MA Qaium Qaium, his brother MA Matin and five others in the murder case.