9 get life for killing schoolboy
Nine people were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a schoolboy in Muktagachha upazila in 2006.
The lifers are Saiful Islam, Anisur Rahman, Piyash Pal, Razib Chandra, Shariful Islam, Jamal Uddin, Delwar Hossain, Pankaj Kumar and Shariful Islam alias Shohag.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 5,000 each, in default they are suffer three months more in jail, court sources said.
According to the prosecution, the convicts killed Ratan Kumar Saha, 14, a class nine student of a local school, at Muktagachha upazila headquaters at around 8:00pm on September 9, 2006 as a sequel to previous enmity.
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