, July 28 -- A Manikganj court on Tuesday sentenced two people to death for killing schoolboy Sohan Mia in 2021.

Manikganj District and Sessions Judge SKM Tofail Hossain handed down the punishment.

The condemned convicts are Awal Mia, son of Harun-or-Rashid of Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district and Sagor Munshi, son of Nuru Munshi of Sadar upazila in Barishal district.Of them, Sagor tried in absentia.

The court also sentenced them to life imprisonment under another section of the case and fined them Tk 50,000 each, in default, to suffer, four years of rigorous imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, Sohan Mia, a Class IX student of BRC High School and son of Nurul Islam of Fordnagar Molla Para in Singair upazila of Manikganj, ...