The two sentenced to one year are Shahadat Hussain Liton Howlader (20) son of Nirbasha Howlader of Dakshin Baurghati and Shahed Talukder (28) son of Shahjahan Talukder.
The tribunal’s special public prosecutor Lashkar Nurul Haque told bdnews24.com that apart from the life sentence, his two brothers were fined 10,000 taka; If they don’t pay, they will have to spend another month in jail without pay.
He said that one of the other three accused was sentenced to two years and the other two to one year and fined one thousand rupees.
Regarding the case, PP Nurul Haque said that due to previous enmity, the accused killed Shamim on May 1, 2011 and left him in a barge. Three days later [৪ মে] Shamim’s body was recovered from Pan Baraj of Anandpur village of that upazila. On the same day, Aktar Bepari filed a murder case against unknown persons as plaintiff.