A Sunamganj court has handed down the death sentence to two people in connection with the gruesome murder of five-year-old child Tuhin Hasan last year.
District and Session Judge Wahiduzzaman Sikder gave the verdict on Monday.
The convicts are Tuhin’s father Abdul Basir and uncle Nasir Uddin.
Police presents the convicts of Tuhin Murder in front of the media on Monday, March 16, 2020 | Dhaka TribuneThe court also acquitted Tuhin’s other uncles Jomshed Ali and Abdul Mosabbir from the case.
In a heinous act of crime, five-year-old Tuhin was brutally murdered by his own relatives in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on October 14, 2019.
The murder, which drew condemnation from people across Bangladesh on social media, took place in the early hours in Kejaura village under the upazila’s Rajanagar union.
During primary interrogation, Tuhin's father Basir, and uncle Nasir confessed to the murder. Police also said Basir and Nasir committed the murder to frame rivals and establish local dominance.
The murderers had left the child’s body hanging from a tree near the family’s house, after stabbing him, slitting his throat, and cutting off his ears and genitals. The killers also left two knives they had used to kill him, jammed in his abdomen.
