Four persons were sentenced to death for killing writer and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das of Sylhet in 2015.
The condemned convicts are Abul Khaer Rashid Ahmed, Abul Hossain alias Abul Hussain, Harunur Rashid and Faisal Ahmed, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal’s judge Nurul Amin Biplob also acquitted Shafiur Rahman Farabi as allegations brought against him was not proven.
Earlier around 12:30pm, Farabi and Abul Khaer, now in jail custody, were produced before the court while the rest are on the run.
Ananta was brutally killed on May 12, 2015 near his Subidbazar residence of Sylhet when he was on his way to work along with his sister.
Banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) claimed responsibility for the murder.
Ananta’s brother Ratneswar Das filed a murder case accusing some unnamed persons with the Sylhet’s Airport Police Station the next day, and the investigation was later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
On October 18 in 2016, Arman Ali, inspector of CID and investigation officer of the case, pressed the charge sheet but the court rejected it and ordered CID to reinvestigate the case and file a supplementary charge sheet, which was later filed on May, 2017.
Another charge-sheeted accused, Mannan Yahya, the lone accused who confessed to the murder before the court, died on November 2 in 2017 after he fell ill at Dhaka Central Jail.
– With The Daily Star input
