A Chattogram court on Monday sentenced six people to life imprisonment for killing journalist Fateh Osmani in 2010 in Sylhet, fining Tk 5,000 in default to suffer six months more imprisonment.
Prashant Kumar Biswas, justice of Sylhet's Special District Judge Court and Public Security Crime Prevention Tribunal, handed down the punishment on Monday, said SM Abul Kalam Azad, bench assistant of the court.
The lifers are-Saddam, Suman, Swapan, Russell, Shah Alam and Md Kashem Ali, with the latter tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, on April 18, 2010, journalist Fateh Osmani was returning home on a motorcycle and when he reached in front of Shah Mir (r.) shrine in Shahi Eidgah of Sylhet city, he came under attack.
Osmani later died of his injuries in a Dhaka hospital on April 28 the same year.
A murder case was filed with Kotwali police following a complaint by Osmani's younger brother Al-Farhad Matin.
