4 to die for murder in Chattogram

A Chattogram court has sentenced four people to death and one to life imprisonment for a murder over a property dispute in Chattogram’s Raozan in 2016.

Chattogram’s Third Additional District and Sessions Judge HM Shafiqul Islam delivered the verdict in the case on Wednesday (July 3).

Sudip Kanti Nath, the state lawyer in the case, confirmed the news.

The death row convicts are Mithu Chowdhury, Sumon Chowdhury, Md Delwar Hossain and Md Ershad Hossain. All of them, aside from Delwar Hossain, are absconding.

Sudip Chowdhury, who was sentenced to life in prison, was present in court in time of announcing the verdict. The court acquitted another suspect in the case.

Sudip Kanti Nath said, “The accused killed Sulal Chowdhury, 55, on the night of Jun 25, 2016 due to a dispute over the boundary of the house.”

After long hearing and testimony in the case, the court gave its verdict today. In the verdict, four accused were sentenced to death and each was fined Tk 50,000, one was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Tk 10,000, and another was acquitted of the case, he further said.