Judge of Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Md Mujibur Rahman handed down the verdict.
The condemned convicts are-- sacked Major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, a suspected coordinator of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam, Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon, Abu Siddiq Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab, Akram Hossain alias Abir, Md Arafat Rahman.
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The tribunal also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
The tribunal also sentenced Shafiur Rahman Farabi to life term imprisonment. It also fined him Tk 50000, in default, to suffer two years more imprisonment.
Earlier on February 4, the tribunal fixed February 16 for delivering the judgment after concluding the law-point arguments from both sides in the case.
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The prosecution also sought death penalty of the six accused in the murder case.
Of them, Zia and Akram were tied in absentia.
On March 25, 2019, the Bangladesh-born US citizen Avijit’s murder case was transferred to the Anti-Terrorism Tribunal.
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On March 14, 2019, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) pressed charges against the accused.
Avijit, son of late physicist Ajoy Roy, was hacked to death, but Banya escaped with serious injuries after unidentified assailants attacked them with meat cleavers near TSC on the Dhaka University campus on the evening of February 26, 2015, as they were returning home from the Amor Ekushey Boi Mela.
Avijit’s late father filed a murder case with Shahbagh Police Station the very next day.