A court here on Thursday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2002.
The convicts were identified as Ershad Ali and Ansar Ali, sons of Safed Ali of Shapmari village in Sadar upazila.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 10,000 each and they will have to suffer six months more rigorous imprisonment if they fail to pay the fine.
According to the prosecution, Habibur Rahman, a schoolteacher of Shapmari village, was stabbed to death by the convicts on his way to school over previous enmity on February 17, 2002.
Harmuj Ali, brother of the victim, later filed a case against nine people in this connection.
On May 19, 2004, police submitted a chargesheet against seven people.
After examining records and witnesses, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mosleh Uddin pronounced the verdict and acquitted five others as allegations brought against them could not be proved.
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