, May 18 -- A Chandpur court on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing another man over a land dispute in 2020.

Chandpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Kamal Hossain handed down the punishment.

The condemned convict is Arif Hossain Bepari, 43, son of Taiab Ali Bepari of the upazila.

The court also fined him Tk 1 lakh, in default, to suffer two more years in jail.

According to the prosecution, Wasim Bepari, 26, a trolley driver and son of Shaheb Ali Bepari of Shikirchar village in Matlab North upazila, had a long-standing enmity with the family of Mizanur Rahman alias Balu Mizan.

As a sequel to the enmity, Wasim was hacked to death by the convict over the dispute on June 29, 2020.

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