The convicts are Sohel Choukidar, Emarat Choukidar, Awlad Choukidar, Badhan, Rony Kazi, Raja Khan and Masud Talukdar. Of them, Raza Khah is in prison while others were tried in absentia.
The tribunal also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer two months more in prison.
The court acquitted 16 other accused as allegations brought against them could not be proved.
According to the prosecution, a group of miscreants intercepted a bus in Alamin Bazar of Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj on March 6, 2014 and opened fire on Shaheen, a local Jubo League leader, while returning home from Dhaka, leaving him dead on the spot.
Later, Shaheen’s aunt Kanan Begum filed a case against 23 people with Srinagar Police Station and police submitted a charge-sheet against 22 of them on June 26, 2015.
After examining the records and witnesses, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Manir Kamal handed down the verdict.