A Kushtia court on Wednesday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for killing a man during a robbery in Daulatdia upazila of the district over 20 years back. Kushtia Additional District and Sessions Judge Court Md Tajul Islam also fined the convicts Tk 25,000 each, in default,  to suffer one year more imprisonment, said Anup Kumar Nandy, public prosecutor of the court. Read more: 3 get life term for killing man in Kushtia The convicts are Swapon, Naharul, Mokbul, Shafi, Shahjahan, and Ajmal, all are residents of the upazila. The court also acquitted eight other people as the allegations brought against them could not be proved, the lawyer said. Of them, Swapon, Mokbul and Naharul were tried in absentia. According to the case statement, a group of robbers equipped with lethal weapons committed robbery at the house of one Shahjahan Ali in Philipnagar village under the upazila on April 27, 2002. The robbers killed Shahjahan Ali when he tried to resist the robbers while they were fleeing with valuables. Read more: 7 get life term for murder in Chattogram On the following day, victim’s son Borhan Uddin Bappi filed a murder case at the local police station.

A 42-year-old man was allegedly killed by his son following an argument in their house in the Char Milpara area of Kushtia on Friday morning. "The deceased, Babu Hossain, was a hawker by profession. He was killed by his son, Ramiz, 18, after an argument between them turned violent," said officer-in-charge Sabbirul Alam of Kushtia Police Station. The wife of the deceased said that Babu came home from Dhaka two days ago.  "This morning, he asked our son, Ramiz, who works in a local factory, for financial contribution to the household. But he flatly refused, which led them to the argument," she said. READ: Jubo Jote politician killed in Kushtia The argument suddenly turned violent when Ramiz allegedly attacked his father with a bamboo stick around 6am. A seriously injured Babu was declared dead on arrival at local hospital, she said. "Legal action will be taken against the culprit, who is absconding," OC Sabbirul said.