Dhaka, May 14 -- A Chattogram court has brought closure to a 23-year-old murder case, sentencing two men to death and three others to life imprisonment over a killing at Badamtali linked to a rejected marriage proposal.

Chattogram's Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Muhammad Ali Akkas delivered the verdict on Thursday.

The death-row convicts are Jamal Uddin Jamal alias Mou and Ershad aka Hiru. Of them, Jamal is on the run.

Life imprisonment was given to Monir Hossain, Alamgir alias Angur aka Pichchi Alamgir and Rashed alias Hashi Miah. Monir is in hiding.

The court's Bench Assistant Rakib Miah told bdnews24.com that Monir, Alamgir and Hashi were also fined Tk 20,000 each. In default, they will have to serve another year in prison...