Cop among 3 to walk gallows for killing 9-yr-old boy

 Star Online Report

Abu Sayeed's body was wrapped in sacks and recovered from the attic of Constable Ebadur Rahman's house at Kumarpara, Sylhet.

A Sylhet court today awarded death penalty to three persons including a sacked police constable for killing nine-year-old Abu Sayeed for ransom.
Judge Abdur Rashid of Sylhet Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal also fined the condemned convicts Tk 1 lakh each.
The convicts are Abdur Rakib, general secretary of Sylhet district unit Olama League, Ebadur Rahman, a sacked constable of Sylhet Airport Police Station, and Ataur Rahman Geda, a police informant.
The court also acquitted Mahib Hossain Masum, publicity secretary of the district unit of Olama League, of the case as allegation against him was not proved.
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The convicts abducted Abu Sayeed, son of Andul Matin, on March 11 for a ransom of Tk 5 lakh and later killed him for recognizing the policeman.
On March 12, Ebadur confessed to the crime before a magistrate. Two days later police recovered Sayeed's body from the attic of the building where both Ebadur and Sayeed resided.