A court in Rangpur on Tuesday sentenced a man to death and seven others to life term imprisonment for killing a woman and her son in Ullapara upazila of the district in 2019.
District Additional and Sessions Judge Mohammad Erfan Ullah handed down the verdict to Hafijul Islam, 40, a resident of Purba Moheshpur village of the upazila.
The convicts who got life term were Delowar Hossain alias Dulal, Bachchu Mia, Md Dulal Sarker, Masud Ullah alias Raton, Rahomot Ullah Panna, Md Rafiqul islam and Md Bodiuzzaman, residents of the same village.
The court also fined each of the convicts Taka 100000, in default, to suffer one more year in jail.
According to the prosecution, on June 26 in 2019 the convicts hacked the woman Rizia Khatun and her son Altab Hossain Mukul to death in the village over previous enmity.
Following the murder, Mukul's wife filed a case accusing a few unnamed people with Ullapara Police Station. Police pressed the charge sheet on October 13 in 2020.
Testifying witnesses and evidences the court passed the order in presence of the convicts, said Additional Public Prosecutor advocate Md Abu Bakkar Siddique.
