Thirteen years after the abduction and murder of an
eight-year-old boy in Gopalganj, a Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced three
people to death and two others to life imprisonment.
Judge Farzana Yasmin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4
delivered the verdict. The court also fined each convicted individual Tk
50,000, according to prosecutor Gias Uddin.
Under the verdict, Jamal Sheikh, his brother Ranju Sheikh,
and Sheikh Shamim Ahmed were sentenced to death for the murder of the child,
Mahfuz....