A court in Dhaka has given life sentence to former Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony for killing two people.
He has also been slapped with a fine of Tk 50,000, failure to pay which will lead to an additional jail term of six months.
Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Monjurul Imam gave the order on Wednesday (Jan 30).
The court fixed Jan 30 as the date of the verdict after hearing the final arguments in the case on Jan 15.
According to the case dossiers, in April 2015 an autorickshaw driver Yakub Ali and rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim were shot in a random firing from a Land Cruiser Prado at the capital’s Eskaton.
Hakim died the next day and Yakub succumbed to death more than a week later.
A murder case was filed by Hakim’s mother with Ramna police station.
Investigations led the Detective Branch to Rony, who allegedly opened fire from his licensed gun under the influence of drugs.
Rony was arrested on May 31 of the same year and a month later was charged by the DB with the killings.
In July of 2015, the investigating officer in the case Deepak Kumar Das produced the charge sheet against Rony and he was indicted in March of 2016.