Death for eight for killing official in Bangladesh

By IANS,

Dhaka : A court in Bangladesh Tuesday awarded the death penalty to eight people for killing a ward commissioner of Lalbagh area here 18 years ago.


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Hazi Mohammad Alim, commissioner of the ward, was shot and stabbed to death at Azimpur area in Dhaka Feb 8, 1996, reported The Daily Star.

Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman of the third additional metropolitan sessions judge’s court pronounced the verdict on Md. Harun, Md. Siraj, Md. Shawkat, Md. Shiblu, Md. Kamal, Syed Ahmad and his two brothers, Rashid Ahmad and Farid Ahmad.

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