16 get life term over post-polls killing
A Patuakhali court handed out life imprisonment to 16 people in a case filed in connection with the death of Md Sahidul Islam Mridha in the post-election violence of union parishad polls in 2011.
Patuakhali Additional District and Sessions Judge Court AKM Enamul Karim delivered the verdict this afternoon in presence of all the convicts, reports our Patuakhali correspondent.
All the convicts are residents of the same house while the court acquitted an accused, Sahidul Islam Mridha, 32.