The Bangladesh Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday upheld loss of life sentences of 15 convicts — together with a former Awami League member and three former officers of the elite Speedy Motion Battalion (RAB) — in a case referring to the kidnapping and homicide of seven individuals in Narayanganj, on the outskirts of Dhaka, three years in the past.
The kidnapping and ugly killing in 2014 of seven individuals, together with Metropolis Company Councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar, had shocked the nation.
Nur Hossain, a former member of the ruling Awami League social gathering and Lt. Col. Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, the then commanding officer of RAB-11, are amongst these awarded the capital punishment. The Excessive Courtroom additionally commuted the loss of life penalties awarded to 11 others to life imprisonment.
On January 16 this yr, a neighborhood courtroom had discovered 35 individuals, together with Hossain and 25 former RAB officers, responsible of the costs. Of them, 26 had been sentenced to loss of life and 9 others to imprisonment.
In line with a chargesheet, Hossain had some enmity with Nazrul Islam over points referring to the town company and paid the native RAB officers for the kidnapping and homicide. He later fled to Kolkata however was caught and despatched again by West Bengal police.
