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ABDUL KADER MURDER Seven get death sentence

CHAITANYA CHANDRA HALDER
A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced seven people to death and four, including a former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker, to life imprisonment over the killing of a leading entrepreneur in 2001.
In a verdict, Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of Dhaka Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 described the killing of 45-year-old Abdul Kader in office in Motijheel on October 17, 2001 as the result of a plot at the upper echelons of society.
"This tribunal is shocked at the death that wiped out a person's bright future," the judge said,
asking the government by implication to put brakes on law and order downslide.
The entrepreneur who came from Dogachhi village in Srinagar, Munshiganj, was killed in midday armed attacks in the capital's commercial heart, sending shock waves through the business community.
The principal accused, 'Mobile' Kader, his brother Masud Rana, Jahangir Hossain, Mohammad Shafiq, Bazlur Rahman, Jan-e-Alam and Abdur Rashid got death sentences, while former JP MP Iqbal Hossain, Ataur Rahman, Abdur Razzak and Shamim Ahmed were jailed for life.
Bazlu, Ataur, Razzak and Jan-e-Alam were present in court, while 'Mobile' Kader and Iqbal Hossain and five others were tried in their absence, as they are evading arrest.
Each convict with death penalty was fined Tk 50,000 and the convicts with life sentences have to pay a Tk 20,000 fine each or to serve another year in jail in failure to pay the fine.
The judge took his seat at 12:25pm and read out the highlights of the 53-page judgement in a crowded courtroom where four convicts were standing in the dock in silence and did not comment on it.
Those to be punished to death can appeal to the High Court against the verdict, the judge said, adding the punishment of the fugitives will be effective from the date of their arrest or surrender.
The prosecution and the defence completed their arguments on January 26 and the tribunal recorded statements of 18 of the 28 prosecution witnesses.
The victim's elder brother Mohammad Yusuf filed a murder case with Motijheel Police Station, and Bazlu gave a confessional statement to a metropolitan magistrate on December 29, 2001 admitting to his role in the killing and named other convicts.
Detectives pressed charges against 'Mobile' Kader and 10 others on May 8 last year and the court framed charges against the accused on September 11 last year.
Earlier, the High Court granted 'Mobile' Kader and Iqbal ad-interim bail, but their bail was
cancelled, as they did not appear in court on six straight dates for hearing.
The victim's wife Farida Yasmin and their daughter Lutfunnesa expressed satisfaction with the verdict and demanded its quick execution and an immediate arrest of the fugitives.
Special Public Prosecutor Abdul Latif Talukder, Sheikh Baharul Islam and Advocate AFM Abdul Wadud appeared for the state, while advocates ABM Sharfuddin Khan Mukul and Mosharraf Hossain defended the accused.