5 get death penalty for killing 2 children after abduction in Cox’s Bazar
Four others have been sentenced to life term imprisonment in the double murder case
A Cox's Bazar court today (21 October) sentenced five people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing two minor siblings after kidnapping in 2016.
Judge of the Cox's Bazar Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Court 2 Abdul Goni handed down the punishment, confirmed state counsel Mir Mosharraf Hossain Titu.
The death row convicts are Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Abdul Shukkur, Alamgir Hossain alias Bulu, Mizanur Rahman and Md Shahidullah.
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The lifers are Abdul Majid, Fatema Khatun, Rasheda and Laila Begum.
According to the prosecution, two siblings — Mohammad Hasan Shakil, 10, and Mohammad Hossain Kajal, 8, sons of Mohammad Forkan of Garjania in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar district, were abducted by the convicts on 17 January 2016.
Later, they demanded Tk4 lakh as ransom from the family of the two siblings.
After failing to realise the ransom money, the convicts killed the two boys and dumped their bodies in a canal. Police recovered the bodies on 20 January 2016, three days after the abduction.
A case was later filed with Ramu Police Station in this connection.
The investigation officer submitted the charge sheet in the case on 7 April 2016. Subsequently, the court framed charges against them on 20 March 2019.
