Online desk ; A court in Madaripur on Wednesday convicted two people and sentenced them to death for killing a man in 2012.
The condemned convicts are Salim Munshi and Pabel Shikder, residents of Kalibari village under Haridasdi-Mahendradi union in Rajoir upazila.
Madaripur District Sessions Court Judge Laylatul Ferdaous pronounced the verdict in absentia.
The court also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
According to the case statement, Shahed Beg, 40, of the same area, went to collect money to go to Libya on the night of November 29, 2012 but he did not return home.
Later, his floating was found in a canal in the area next morning.
The deceased’s elder brother Rafiqul Beg lodged a case with Rajoir Police Station in this connection.
After examining records and witnesses, the court handed the verdict, additional public prosecutor Ghulam Azam Shamim confirmed.
