A court in Bangladesh yesterday awarded the death penalty to eight people, including three siblings, for killing a ward commissioner of Lalbagh area in Dhaka 18 years ago.
Hazi Mohammad Alim, commissioner of the ward, was shot and stabbed to death at Azimpur area in Dhaka on February 8, 1996, reported The Daily Star.
Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman of the third additional metropolitan sessions court pronounced the verdict on Md Harun, Md Siraj, Md Shawkat, Md Shiblu, Md Kamal, Syed Ahmad and his two brothers, Rashid Ahmad and Farid Ahmad.