DHAKA: A special court in Narsingdi district yesterday handed down death sentence to seven persons for the murder of six people of a family last year. The convicts had raped two young women of the family before killing them.
Akhtaruzzaman Biru, Dhud Mian, Sharif Bhuiyan, Shahid Mian, Fazlul Haq, Swapan Mian and Jahangir were also fined 10,000 taka each.
The convicts had killed Yuona, 28, and Swarna, 26, after molesting them in their house on the night of May 18 last year. The also killed their father Raisuddin, mother Salma Begum, brother Rajib and adopted sister Urmi.
The neighbors came to know of the killings four days after the incident. Police broke into the house and recovered the bodies.
Shahjahan Bhuiyan, Raisuddin’s brother, filed a murder case with the police.
Earlier on March 17, Judge A.K.M. Abul Kashem of another court had convicted the seven and awarded them capital punishment for the murders.
After examining records and statements of 27 witnesses, the judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Court, Mian M. Sharif Hossain, handed down the second verdict in the case yesterday.
