Eight ABT men to die for killing publisher Dipon

A Dhaka Court on Wednesday sentenced eight members of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team to death in a case filed over the murder of Jagriti Prokashoni publisher Foysal Arefin Dipon.

Judge Mojibur Rahman of Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal also fined each convict Tk 50,000.

Jagriti Prokashoni publisher Dipon was hacked to death at his Aziz Super Market office on October 31, 2015.

His wife Rajia Rahman filed the case on the day with Shahbagh police station.

Investigation officer and detective branch assistant police commissioner Fazlur Rahman on November 15, 2018, submitted a charge sheet against eight accused.

On March 19, 2019, a tribunal accepted the charge sheet filed in the case and issued arrest warrant against fugitive accused Ansarullah Bangla Team leaders, sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haque and Akram Hossain.

The other accused are Moinul Hasan Shamim, 24, Md Abdus Sabur, 23, Khairul Islam, 24, Md Abu Siddique Sohel, 34, Md Mozammel Hossain Saimon, 25, Md Sheikh Abdullah, 27.

The tribunal on October 13, 2019, framed charges against eight members of banned militant outfit ABT in the case.

Six accused, who were arrested and gave confessional statement, were in the dock when the court announced the court announced the verdict.

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