A court in Chattogram has sentenced ten people to death and five others to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of Satkania Sonakania union parishad’s former Amjad Hossain.
Judge AKM Mozammel Haque of the Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal passed the order on Sunday (December 13). Lawyer of the concerned court Md Masum Roy confirmed the matter.
According to the case statement, Sonakania Union Parishad Chairman Amjad Hossain was shot dead in front of the Satkania Mirzarkhil Darbar Sharif on October 3, 1999.
Syeda Raushan Akhter, wife of Amjad Hossain, filed a murder case with Satkania Police Station the following day against 21 people.
On completion of the investigation over the murder, police filed the charge sheet on December 22 in 2000. Of the 20 accused, one died and ten others are behind bars while the remaining nine accused are on the run.
