MANIKGANJ: Two persons were awarded death penalty by a Manikganj court for killing a man in Manikganj Sadar upazila on March 9 of 2010.

Judge Shahana Haque Siddiqi of additional district and sessions judge’s court of Manikganj delivered the verdict on Tuesday (September 3).

Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) Mathur Nath moved for the state while lawyer Anwar Hossen stood for the state.

The convicts were—Masud, son of Mozafar, who hails from Charhizuli village of Manikganj Sadar upazila and Sanowar, son of Badiuzzaman of Tarakandi village of Bogura.

Masud and Sanowar called Ratan outside of home over a phone call on the night of March 9 in 2010.

Ratan--aged 22, son Bishu Miah— was a resident of Hizuli village under Manikganj Sadar upazila.

They took Ratan on the bank of Dhaleshwari River at Dergram village of the sadar upazila. Out of personal enmity, both of them strangled Ratan to death with a towel and left the body in a maize field. They also snatched Ratan’s mobile away.

Bishu Miah, father of the deceased, filed a case with sadar police station on March 10-the following day.

BDST: 1809 HRS, SEP 3, 2019

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