A tribunal here on Sunday sentenced nine people to life term imprisonment each for killing a man in 1996.
The lifers are Mohammad Nasim, Abdul Malek, Joynal Abedin, Iqbal Hossain, Zohra Haque, Yeasin, Abul Hashem, Dulal and Selim.
The tribunal also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer three months more rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, Kamal Pasha alias Dipu, 23, was hacked to death by the convicts following enmity over controlling cable service business in city’s Mirpur Mazar Road area on January 13, 1996.
Victim’s father Dewan Abdur Rahman filed a case with Mirpur Police Station.
Mohammad Nasiruddin, inspector of CID, submitted a chargesheet against them on October 10, 2013.
After examining the records and 15 witnesses, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Manir Kamal handed down the verdict.