A court in Jhenaidah on Thursday sentenced 10 years imprisonment to young men and fined Tk 5 thousand each in a murder case.
The district sessions judge Khan Mohammad Abdul Mannan declared the verdict.
The convicts were Jahidur Rahman, 16, son of Mizanur Rahman and Mohammad Sohel, 15, son of Ohidur Rahman of village Keshabpur at Moheshpur in Jhenaidah.
According to the prosecution, the two accused on May 12, 2008 called Samaul Haque, a trader in the village, over cellular phone call and demanded money as ransom. When Samaul refused to pay the money, the young men slaughtered him to dead. Later Samaul's father Abdur Rahman had filed a case with Moheshpur police on May 13 in the year. The investigation officer of Jhenaidah police station, Sagir Hossain, had submitted charge sheet against the two after investigation.
Source : New Age
