BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING NURSERY SCHOOL STUDENT EMON IN SYLHET

February 18, 2019:

Four people have been sentenced to death for abducting and murdering a nursery school student in Sunamganj’s Chhatak Upazila.
Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Md Rezaul Karim announced the verdict on 6 February 2019, four years after the remains of Mostafizur Rahman Emon were found in a swamp area at Noarai Union’s Batirkandi village in 2015.
Sayebur Rahman Sujon, 28, an Imam from Chhatak’s Bhammanjulia village, Zayed Ahmed, 27, and Rafikur Rahman were present in court when they were sentenced to death for his murder.
Saleh Ahmed, 24, also convicted and sentenced to death, has been on the run since the beginning of the trial. 
Emon used to study at the nursery section in a community school run by the Lafarge Surma Cement factory in Chhatak’s Batikandi village.
The child went missing on March 27 of 2015, following which his family received ransom demands from abductors, according to the case details.
The abductors killed the child after failing secure ransom from the family.