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SC upholds life imprisonment for 2 in child Rakib murder case
DHAKA, Feb 22, 2021(BSS) – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
(SC) today upheld a High Court order that had commuted death sentences of two
convicts to life imprisonment in a case lodged over sensational murder of
child Rakib in Khulna in 2015.
A three-member apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud
Hossain passed the order, dismissing appeals filed by the two convicts Md
Omar Sharif and Mintu, Deputy Attorney General Biswajit Debnath told newsmen.
According to case records, Omar Sharif and Mintu killed Rakib, 12, by
pumping air into his body through rectum on August 3, 2015. Sharif was angry
with Rakib as the latter had quitted job in his garage.
Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on November 8, 2015, sentenced
Sharif and Mintu to death in the case lodged by Rakib’s father.
The High Court however, on April 4, 2017, commuted death sentences of
the two convicts to life imprisonment after holding hearings on the death
reference and jail appeals.
The court had also fined the two convicts Taka 50 thousand each.
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