A court in Tangail has sentenced a readymade garments worker over the 2012 murder of labour leader Aminul Islam.
On Sunday, a special judge’s court sentenced 26-year-old Mustafizur Rahman to death over the murder of Aminul, who was the president of Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers’ Federation.
Convict Mustafizur was tried as a fugitive to justice.
On Apr 4, 2012, Aminul, who was also the convener of the Bangladesh Centre for Workers’ Solidarity, went missing from Dhaka’s Savar.
Two days later, police in Tangail’s Ghatail Upazila recovered the body of an unidentified man near the highway to Mymensingh. Authorities buried it later as no one had claimed it.
The picture of the body, kept with the police, was later identified by Aminul’s family. It was then exhumed on the court’s order and buried at Aminul’s native Gazipur district.
Ghatail police had started a case over the recovered body. The investigation was later handled by the Tangail police and the detective branch.
Dhaka metro police’s CID unit was later put in charge of the probe and its Assistant Superintendent Fazlul Kabir filed charges against convict Mustafizur Rahman in court.