Court Reporter / Thelegalvoice24 :
Dhaka, A court here today sentenced four people to death and fined them Taka 20 thousand each in a case lodged over murder of Ashulia garment worker Md Tanim in 2017.
The convicts are garment workers Sohel Rana, Forhad Hossain, Md Ashikur Rahman and Md Nazrul Islam. Of the fourt Nazrul is yet to be arrested and was tried in absentia.
Dhaka 2nd Additional District and Sessions Judge Ismat Ara pronounced the verdict today, also sentencing the convicts’ five-year more behind bars under another section of extortion.
Tanim went missing on July 22, 2017, and his body was found in a jungle near Khagan Village in Ashulia three days later.
Meanwhile, Tanim’s mother filed the case with Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in August, 2017, and the court ordered Ashulia police to probe the case. Police during its investigation found that the four abducted Tanim as he demanded his money that they took from him. They beat him and recorded his cry for mercy on mobile phone and received money from his mother through Bkash by sending the audio clip.
The four later killed Tanim and dumped his body in that jungle. Police later arrested Sohel and he confessed his role in the killing and named all his partners in crime.
The court on November 5, 2018, framed charges against the killers.
