<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A Cumilla court on Sunday sentenced nine people to death and nine others to life imprisonment for killing former president of Alkora union unit Jubo League Jamal Uddin in 2016.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cumilla Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Jahangir Hossain handed down the punishment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court also acquitted five others as allegations brought against them could not be proved.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the prosecution, former chairman of Alkora union parishad Ismail Hossain Bacchu and Jubo League leader Jamal had been at loggerheads.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 8, 2016, Jamal was abducted by the convicts following rivalry with the chairman.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, they took him to an under-construction building where they killed the Jubo League leader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zohra Begum, elder sister of Jamal, filed a case against 21 identified and some unidentified people. Police submitted a chargesheet against 23 people. Source: UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>