A Chattogram court sentenced six Chhatra League activists to life imprisonment on Tuesday for the 2014 murder of another activist Nurul Alam Raju.
The order was issued by Chattogram Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge AKM Mozzammel Haque, according to the court's public prosecutor Ayub Khan.
The convicts are Jahir, Khorshed, Rocky, Ayub, Emon and Firoz. The court also fined them Tk10,000, in default, they have to serve one year in jail, said Ayub Khan, public prosecutor of the tribunal.
The court also acquitted 14 people of the allegations since their involvement could not be proven, according to the lawyer, who added that the trial of two other people was still ongoing in the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal.