, May 3 -- A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a source of Detective Brach (DB) of police in 1999.

Judge of the Dhaka Additional Metropoltian Session Judge Court-4, Mosaddek Minhaz handed down the punishment.

The lifers are Habildar Md Billal Hossain, Constable Abdur Rauf and manager of DB Canteen Anwar Hossain.

The court also issued warrants for their arrest as all of them were tried in absentia.

According to the prosecution, Jalal Ahmed Shafi, a source of DB police, left his Lalmatia residence in Mohammadpur Police Station area at around 3:00am on March 20, 1999, for the DB office with his vehicle license and chequebook.

Later police recovered the decomposed body of Jalal from the water t...