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11 sentenced to death for killing Bangladesh ruling party leader

Xinhua, November 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

A court in suburban Dhaka handed down death penalty to 11 people on Monday for murder of a leader of Jubo League, the youth front of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ruling Bangladesh Awami League.

Additional District and Sessions judge Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan announced the verdict against the condemned killers. Among them six were behind the bars while five were on the run.

Most of the accused reportedly belonged to ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its affiliated bodies in Gazipur on the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital.

According to the case file, Jalal Uddin Sarkar, ex-president of Awami Juba League's Kapasia unit in Gazipur, was hacked to death on Aug. 17, 2003.

The convicts could appeal against the death penalty in the High Court within seven days. Endit