BANGLADESH: TWO DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER IN C’NAWABGANJ

a court here in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh, awarded two people capital punishment for killing an elderly man in 2007. The condemned convicts are Abdul Mukim and Ashraful Islam of Kansat Shibnagar village in Shibganj upazila. According to the prosecution, Mukim along with his friend Ashraful beat his grandfather, Fazlur Rahman, alias Mesu Khalifa, to death on January 1, 2007 being failed to get money from him. After examining the records and witnesses, District and Sessions Judge Hrishikesh Saha handed down the verdict.