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Bangladesh: 13 sentenced to death for lynching 6 students in Aminbazar in 2011

Bangladesh: 13 sentenced to death for lynching 6 students in Aminbazar in 2011
, Thursday, 2 December 2021 (17:35 IST)
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court has sentenced 13 people to death and 19 others to life-term imprisonment for murder of six students at Aminbazar in Savar of Dhaka in 2011.

Dhaka’s Second Additional District and Sessions Judge Ismat Jahan passed the order on Thursday.

The death-row convicts are -- Abdul Malek, Saif Member, Abdur Rashid, Ismail Hossen Repu, Jamser Ali, Meer Hossen, Mojibur Rahman, Anwar Hossen, Rajab Ali, Alam Nura, Mohammad Rana, Abdul Hanif and Aslam Miah.

The people who got life-term imprisonment are Shahin Ahmed, Farid Khan, Rajib Hossen, Wasim, Sattar, Selim, Monir Hossen, Alamgir, Mobarak Hossen, Akhil Khandaker, Bashir, Rubel, Nur Islam, Shahdan Hossen, Tutul, Masud, Mokhles, Totol and Saiful.

The six victims are Tipu Sultan of Tejgaon College, Towhidur Rahman Palash, Kamruzzaman Kanto and Ibrahim Khalil of Mirpur Bangla College, Shams Rahim Shamam of Maple Leaf International School, and Sitaf Jabi Munif of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology.

A total of 54 witnesses out of the 92 have testified before the court in the case.

On July 17, 2011, the students were brutally beaten to death on the night of Shab-e-Barat. After the incident, the murderers filed a robbery case against the deceased with Savar Model Police Station. Police, on the other hand, filed another case against 600 villagers for lynching the students.

Charge sheet in the case was filed against 60 on January 7, 2013, while Dhaka Second Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Uddin on July 8, 2013, framed charges against them. (UNI)

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