Stalker to die for killing Barisal schoolteacher
Zinnat Ali and, right, his killer RupomPhoto: File Photo
A Barisal court yesterday sentenced a stalker to death for killing schoolteacher Zinnat Ali in the city in 2011. The convict is Rupom Dey alias Anik, 25, of Bazar Road area in the city. District and Sessions Judge AKM Salimullah pronounced the verdict in the murder case. He acquitted another accused Monowar Hossain Tappu as charges brought against him could not be proved. Twenty-eight out of 29 witnesses were cross-examined during the trial and both sides ended their arguments on July 25 this year. Zinnat Ali, 58, a teacher of M A Wahed High School in the city, was stabbed to death by stalker Rupom in front of his house in Rupatali area of the city on November 25. Rupom attacked Zinnat, also a freedom fighter, as he refused to withdraw the general diary (GD) filed against his with Kawnia police station in August 2011 for stalking his daughter on her way to college. Zinnat was admitted to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) where he succumbed to his injuries the following day. Victim's wife Kazi Shirin Akhter filed a murder case with Kotwali police station the same day, accusing Rupom and his accomplices--Tappu and Arifur Rahman Mithu--of killing her husband. Police arrested Mithu on November 27 and Rupom at Khajuria bus stand in Jessore on November 28. Later, Tappu surrendered to the court. After investigation, police pressed charges against Rupom and Tappu. Mithu was released from jail as the investigation officer did not press charges against him Court sources said Rupom gave confessional statement before Senior Judicial Magistrate Abul Bashar on November 29 in 2011.
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