26 given death sentence in Bangladesh's sensational murder case

DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh's central Narayangan district about 20km from the capital Dhaka imposed on Monday death sentence on 26 accused in a sensational murder case of seven people, China' Xinhua news agency reported.
Narayanganj's District and Sessions Judge Syed Enayet Hossain ordered the death penalty for 26 and jailed nine others for seven to 17 years' o imprisonment for the 2014 sensational murder case.
The court found all the accused guilty of the murders.
Narayanganj City Corporation's ex-Councillor Nur Hossain, believed to b the mastermind of the murder of seven persons, and three former senior officer of Bangladesh's elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are among the 26 given the death penalty.
Twenty-three of the 26 accused including prime suspect Nur Hossain are no behind the bars.
The abduction and gruesome killings, which apparently shocked Bangladesh sparked massive waves of protests in the country.
Nazrul Islam, a fellow councillor of Hossain, with three associates and hi driver went missing on April 27, 2014. Nazrul's lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarker who was following his car of Nazrul Islam, also went missing on the same day wit his driver from the same place.
About a week later bodies of all the seven persons were seen floating o the Shitalakshya River on which the Narayanganj stands on.
Nazrul's father-in-law Shahidul Islam alleged that RAB personnel abducted and killed Nazrul and his associates, who had a long-standing political an business rivalry with Nur Hossain, who fled to India after the murders too place.
Nur Hossain was arrested in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state o West Bengal in June, 2015, and subsequently brought back home. — Bernama