A Rangpur court on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing a police officer in 2021.
Rangpur Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Marzia Khatun handed down the punishment.
The condemned convict was identified as Pervez Rahman Palash, a drug trader and son of Zahidul Islam from the Haragach area.
The court also fined him Tk 10,000 and sentenced him to five years imprisonment in two separate sections of the case.
Youth hacked to death in Rangpur
According to the prosecution, Piarul Islam, an assistant sub-inspector of Haragach Police Station, was stabbed to death by the convict during an anti-narcotics drive at Shahebganj in Rangpur city on September 25, 2021.
Police arrested Palash from the spot along with drugs.
Two separate cases—one under the Narcotics Act and another for murder—were filed against Palash.