Sofian Khan
The High-Court upholds death sentence of 139 people as they were involved in the 2009 mutiny at the Border Guard Bangladesh’s headquarters in Dhaka. Also, a lifetime imprisonment of 146 people was sentenced by the court. The three-member bench was led by Justice Md Shawkat Hossain. On Monday, he pronounced the sentences after on Sunday it started reading the verdict. Court also has sentenced 31 more to live in prison out of 69 who were before acquitted by the trial court.The High court verdict states that four death row convicts were absolved while 8 others’ lessened to life term imprisonment and one died. Out of 160, 149 was upheld life term by High Court. In Total, 189 sentenced for life term imprisonment and 200 others will serve for different jail-terms. On the February 25 and 26 of 2009, inside BDR headquarters in the capital’s Peelkhana, 57 army officers were brutally murdered. A special court of an additional metropolitan session judge sentenced death penalty to 152 non-commissioned officers & soldiers of former Bangladesh Rifles or BDR for the massacre.Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Sunday said that the three member reached mutual consent mutually regarding verdict in the case. Although their observations can vary with each other. In the history of Bangladesh, never before had this many, 850 in total been accused.