8 to die in Cox's Bazar for killing Bangladeshi expatriate
A Cox's Bazar court on Thursday sentenced eight people to death in a case over the killing of a Bangladeshi expatriate in Saudi Arabia in Sadar upazila of the district around 23 years ago.
Cox's Bazar Additional District and Sessions-4 judge Mosharraf Hossain gave the judgement in the absence of the convicts.
The court also fined them Tk1 lakh each, in default, and they would serve two more years of imprisonment, said the court's Additional Public Prosecutor Advocate Showkat Belal.
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The condemned convicts are Manjur Hossain, Md Alam, Shahar Muluk alias Kalu, Anwar Hossain alias Kaluinna, Jasim Uddin, Mostak, Aktar Kamal and Shahab Uddin, residents of Rumaliyachhara area of the Sadar upazila.
Of them, Manjur is the husband of victim Md Hossain's daughter.
According to the case statement, a group of miscreants led by Manjur entered the house of victim Hossain breaking the door in Bachamiaharghona area in the upazila on June 15, 2000.
The miscreants gunned down the expatriate and left the house.
Later, the victim's wife Sabur Khatun filed a murder case in this connection at Sadar police station.
