Bangladesh, April 10 -- Two police officers have been sentenced to death for the killing of Abu Sayed, while three others received life imprisonment and 25 additional accused were handed varying jail terms by the tribunal.

The verdict was delivered on April 9 by the three-member bench of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), led by Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury.

The other members of the bench were retired district and sessions judge Md Manjurul Bashid and district and sessions judge Nur Mohammad Shahriar Kabir.

The two convicts sentenced to death are former assistant sub-inspector Amir Hossain and constable Sujan Chandra Roy.

Three others-former assistant commissioner of police (Kotwali Zone) Arifuzzaman (also known as Jiban), for...