6 get life for killing
A court here on Monday convicted six people and sentenced them to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing a taxicab driver in 2006. The convicts are Ishaq of Sengaon village in Shaharasti upazila of Chandpur district, Monir, Masum, Anwar, Yasin, and Munaf, all of Shahapur village in Comilla Sadar. Yasin and Munaf were tried in absentia. The court also fined the convicts Tk 30,000 each, in default, to suffer six month more RI. According to the prosecution, the convicts had rented a taxicab from Demra in Dhaka for going to Shahapur Darbar Sharif in Comilla on March 9 in 2006. When they reached their destination they took the driver, Anwar Hossain, 35, to the bank of the Gomti and chopped him to death. The victim hailed from Dasergaon village of Bandar upazila in Narayanganj district. Later, Kotwali police arrested the culprits while they were trying to sell the taxicab. After examining the records and witnesses, Additional Sessions Judge Hasina Rausan Jahan pronounced the verdict.
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