, Oct. 29 -- A Sylhet court on Thursday sentenced suspended Sub-Inspector of police Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan to death in a case filed over the death of Raihan Ahmed in torture at the Bandarbazar police outpost in 2020.Sylhet Metropolitan and Session Judge Abdul Majid Munshi also awarded life imprisonment to two other accused and seven year's jail to three others.

The lifers are suspended constables Harun-or-Rshid and Titu Chandra Das, while three other convicts are suspended SI Hasan Uddin, Assistant Sub-Inspector Asheque Elahi and journalist Abdullah Al Noman.

The court also fined Akbar Tk 1 lakh.

Of the convicts, Asheque was present in the dock while others were tried in absentia.

According to the prosecution, on October 11, 2020, Raih...