A Cox’s Bazar court on Tuesday sentenced five people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing two minor siblings after kidnapping in 2016.
Judge of the Cox’s Bazar Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Court 2 Abdul Goni handed down the punishment.
The condemned convicts are-Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Abdul Shukkur, Alamgir Hossain alias Bulu, Mizanur Rahman and Md Shahidullah.
The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each.
The lifers were Abdul Majid, Fatema Khatun, Rasheda and Laila Begum.
According to the prosecution, two siblings—Mohammad Hasan Shakil 10 and Mohammad Hossain Kajal, 8, sons of Mohammad Forkan of Garjania in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar district, were abducted by the convicts on January 17, 2016.
Later, they demanded Tk 4 lakh as ransom from the family of the two siblings.
Failing to realise the ransom money, the convicts killed the two boys and dumped them into a canal.
Police recovered their bodies on January 20, 2016, three days after they were kidnapped.
A case was filed with Ramu Police Station.
5 get death penalty for double murder in Cox’s Bazar
