Thirteen people have been awarded capital punishment by a court in Dhaka for beating six students to death in Aminbazar over suspicion of robbery. The incident took back in 2011.
Nineteen others were given life in prison in the verdict by the same court.
All slain were teenagers.
On Thursday (December 2), Dhaka Additional District and Sessions Judge Ismat Jahan announced the verdict in the case.
The court also fined Tk20,000 for those awarded death penalty, and Tk10,000 for those awarded life-in-prison.
The slain teenagers were: Shams Rahim Shammam, an A-Level student from Maple Leaf School (Dhanmondi), Ibrahim Khalil, a second-year undergraduate student at Mirpur Government Bangla College’s Department of Accounting, Touhidur Rahman Polash, a second-year student in the Department of Physics at Bangla College, Tipu Sultan, a first-year student in the Department of Management at Tejgaon College, Sitab Jabir Munib, a second-year BBA student at the Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) in Mirpur, and Quamruzzaman, a higher secondary student at Bangla College.
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