One to die, 3 others get life

The convict with death is Aidhanath alias Adithya Chandra Sarker while Ranaul Haq Tutul, Hazrat Mollah and Jilon were given life in jail.

Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts.

The court fined Adithya Tk one lakh while the rest three were fined Tk 75,000 each, in default, three to suffer two years' more in jail.

A group of miscreants led by Adithya poured kerosene on Shahjadi Sonia Swapna, 21, a first year student of Nurul Haq Law College in Manikganj while she was sleeping at their house at about 10:15pm on November 22 last year.

After fighting with life for eight days, Sonia breathed her last at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on November 30.

The victim gave a dying declaration to a magistrate disclosing the names of the culprits. They killed her following a feud over previous enmity with one Tutul, she said in the declaration.

Later, a murder case was filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act against Adithya and three others.

Victim's father Giuas Uddin, former upazila chairman of Manikganj Sadar, was present at the court during the delivery of the verdict and expressed his satisfaction over the judgement.

Special Public Prosecutor Abdul Latif Talukder appeared for the state while advocates Abdul Aziz, Abdul Mannan and Alauddin defended the accused.