UNB, Dhaka

The High Court yesterday okayed the death sentences against nine out of ten condemned convicts while exonerated all 13 lifers in the decade-old Kazi Aref murder case.
A Division Bench comprising Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman and ATM Fazle Kabir delivered the judgment in resolving the death reference along with jail appeal cases.
An armed gang killed Kazi Aref Ahmed, president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and freedom fighter, along with his four local party colleagues while he was speaking out against political violence at a rally at Kalidaspur village in Daulatpur of Kushtia on February 16, 1999. [Read more]