Shawdesh Desk:

A Sylhet tribunal has sentenced four people to death in writer and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.

Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal’s judge Nurul Amin Biplob passed the order on Wednesday.

The condemned convicts are Abul Khaer Rashid Ahmed, Abul Hossain alias Abul Hussain, Harunur Rashid and Faisal Ahmed.

The court also acquitted Shafiur Rahman Farabi as the prosecution failed to prove his involvement in the killing.

Ananta was hacked to death by suspected militants near his home at Sylhet’s Subid Bazar neighbourhood on May 12, 2015.

Banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) claimed responsibility for the murder.

Ananta’s brother Ratneswar Das filed a murder case with the Sylhet’s Airport Police Station the next day.

On May, 2017, the CID pressed charge sheet against six persons.