On Monday, the court of Narayanganj's District and Sessions Judge delivered the verdict in the murders of seven people, including councilor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar.
Nine others have been given various prison terms.
On the afternoon of Apr 27, 2014, City Councillor Nazrul Islam and five of his associates were abducted from their car on Dhaka-Narayanganj Link Road.
Around the same time and from the same location, senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his driver, who were in another car, were kidnapped.
Three days later, their bloated bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya River.
From the very beginning, the slain councillor’s family claimed that another councillor Nur Hossain had paid Tk 60 million to senior officers of the local RAB unit to carry out the murders.
Both Islam and Nur Hossain belonged to the ruling Awami League.
After the investigation, which took almost a year, police pressed charges against Nur Hossain, three senior officers of the Narayanganj-based RAB battalion and 31 others.
Nur Hossain had fled immediately after the killings, but was detained in India’s Kolkata and brought back to Bangladesh 17 months later.
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