Four awarded death penalty for killing RMG worker

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced four people to death in a case lodged over the murder of Ashulia garment worker Md Tanim in 2017, reports BSS.

The convicts are garment workers Sohel Rana, Forhad Hossain, Md Ashikur Rahman and Md Nazrul Islam. 

Of these fours, Nazrul is yet to be arrested and was tried in absentia.

Dhaka’s Second Additional District and Sessions Judge Ismat Ara fined them Tk20,000 each, and also sentenced them to five-year imprisonment for extortion.

RMG worker Tanim went missing on July 22, 2017, and his body was found in a jungle near Khagan village in Ashulia three days later.  

Tanim’s mother filed the case with Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in August, 2017, and the court ordered Ashulia police to probe the case. 

Police found that the four convicts abducted Tanim as he demanded his money that they took from him. 

They beat him and recorded his cry for mercy on mobile phone and received money from his mother through bKash by sending the audio clip, and later dumped Tamim’s body in that jungle after killing him, says the police. 

Police later arrested Sohel and he confessed his role in the killing and named all his partners in crime.

The court framed charges against the killers on November 5, 2018.