A Chuadanga court on Monday sentenced a man to death in a case over killing a class three student in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga last year.
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Judge of Chuadanga additional district and sessions judge second court Masud Ali also sentenced two other people to 14 years’ imprisonment each.
The death-row convict is Mohammad Momin, 23, of Taltala area under Sadar municipality of the district. The court fined him Tk 50, 000.
The other convicts- Parvez Ahmed, 28, and Ashrafuzzaman Rizon, 30, were also fined Tk 20, 000 each, in default, they will have to serve three more months’ jail.
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Of the convicts, Parvez is now on the run while an arrest warrant was issued for him.
According to the case statement, Abu Huraira, son of Taltala’s Abdul Barek and class- three student of local Victoria Jubilee Government High School, went missing on January 19, 2022.
As the child was not found for five days, his father filed a case naming five people including Momin with the concerned police station on January 25.
Police recovered the child’s body from a graveyard in the Taltala area on February 15 of the same year after Momen had been arrested.
Police submitted chargesheet accusing the three on August 14 in 2022.
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After completing legal procedures, the court handed down the judgment in the presence of the two accused.