Two to die, two get life term for double murder

A Dhaka court e on Thursday sentenced two people to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing two young men in 2010. The death-row convicts are Md Kaiser Mollah and Farhad Gazi alias Farhad of Uttar Khan area. They are on the run. The lifers, Md Suruj Miah and Suporna, were fined Tk20,000 each, in default of which they will have to stay behind bars for an additional year. According to the prosecution, Farhad planned to kill Md Sabuj,22, following a previous enmity over a love affair. As per his plan, Farhad and the other accused called Sabuj to meet Suporna at Bhadul area in Pubail to watch shooting on August 20, 2010. When Sabuj along with his friend Jakiur Rahman Jewel went to the spot on the day the accused slaughtered them and dumped their bodies in a bush there. Later, Jewel's elder brother filed a case with Uttar Khan Police Station on September 9, 2010. Later, police arrested two of the accused and as per their statements, police recovered the skeletons of the two young men from Bhadul area on September 10, 2010. DB Sub inspector Md Hafizur Rahman, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted a chargesheet against the four people on June 3, 2011. After examining the records and witnesses, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 judge Abdur Rahman Sarder handed down the verdict.