The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Chittagong

A speedy-trial tribunal here Thursday awarded death sentence to a youth and sentenced 10 others to life-term imprisonment for killing a student.

The condemned convict, Mohammad Ibrahim, was not in the dock. Four of the lifers are also on the run.

Each of the 10 lifers was also fined to pay Tk 10,000 or serve two more years in jail.

They are Sufal Hossain, Faisal Khan, Mohammad Rashed, Rupam Das, Mohammad Mijan, Ishtiaque Hossain, Shahidul Islam, Rabiul Hossain, Iqbal Hossain and Liton Biswas. The last four are fugitives.

According to prosecution in brief, the 11 persons stabbed Utpal Barua, a resident of Nasirabad in Painchlaish thana in the port city and an A-level student of a local English-medium school, to death near the United Nations Park here.

He was attacked while going to a coaching centre at Katalgang in city' s Panchlaish thana on the afternoon of March 4, 2006. Previous enmity is believed to be the cause of the killing. Victim's family filed a case with the local police station in this connection. The case was transferred to the divisional speedy trial tribunal from the judge court in January this year for its quick disposal.

After examining records and witnesses of the case, judge of the tribunal Mohammad Shafiqul Karim handed down the verdict in the absence of five accused.