A Mymensingh court on Thursday sentenced four people to life imprisonment for the murder of a man over a land dispute in Trishal upazila in 2011.
The convicts are Abdul Sattar Bepari, his two sons Alamgir Hossain Alam Bepari and Rony Bepari, and Ashikur Rahman Ashik.
The court also fined each of the convicts Tk 1 lakh, with an additional year of rigorous imprisonment in default of payment.
Farzana Ahmed, additional judge of the Mymensingh District and Sessions Judge Court-4, delivered the verdict in the afternoon.
Of the convicts, Sattar was standing in the dock when the verdict was delivered, while the rest were tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, the victim, Sohel, and the convicts had a long-standing dispute over land in Bagadaria village under Kahihari union of Trishal.
On May 28, 2011, Sohel was returning home with paddy when he got into an argument with them over the dispute.
At one stage, the convicts attacked him with locally made weapons, leaving him seriously injured.
Locals first took Sohel to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. He was later sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he died while undergoing treatment on May 30.
Following the incident, Sohel's father Abdul Salam Bepari filed a murder case with Trishal Police Station on June 2, 2011, naming 20 people as accused.