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HC upholds death for 3 in Ctg student murder

News Desk Courts 2022-11-03, 3:19pm

The High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of three convicts for killing English medium school student Himadri Majumder Himu in Chattogram in 2012.



The High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of three convicts for killing English medium school student Himadri Majumder Himu in Chattogram in 2012.
The court, on the other hand, acquitted two other accused in the case.
An HC bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman handed down the verdict after holding hearing on the death reference and the appeals of the convicts and accused challenging the lower court verdict.
The death row convicts are Zahidur Rahman Shaon, Junaid Ahmed Riad and Mahbub Ali Danny.
A Chittagong court on August 14, 2016 sentenced five persons to death in the murder.