Sylhet: A tribunal in Sylhet on Monday sentenced three people to death for killing nine-year-old schoolboy Abu Sayeed after abduction in Sylhet city on 14 March.

The three condemned convicts are suspended Airport police constable Ebadur Rahman alias Putul, 24, District Olama League general secretary Abdur Rakib, 26, and a police informer Ataur Rahman Geda, 33.

The court also fined them TK 20,000 each.

Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Abdur Rashid pronounced the verdict acquitting District Olama League publicity secretary Mahib Hossain Masum.

Earlier on 17 November, the court framed charges against four people in the case.

Of them, Masum, who had remained absconding, surrendered before the court on 10 November.

On 14 March, police recovered the body of Abu Sayeed, a fourth grader of Shahi Eidgah Hazrat Shahi Mir Govt Primary School who had been abducted on 11 March, from the house of police constable Ebadur at Jharnapar in the city.

Police arrested constable Ebadur Rahman, Rakib and Geda in connection with the killing.

The arrestees were then interrogated at the police station where they reportedly confessed to killing the schoolboy.

Constable Ebadur Rahman made a confessional statement under Section 164 before Judge Shahedul Karim of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court-1.

Abdul Matin, victim’s father, filed a murder case against the arrestees and three other unidentified people.

Quoting Ebadur who once lived with the family of Matin on sublet, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police Rahmat Ullah said the policeman with the help of Rakib and Geda had kidnapped Sayeed.

Later, they took him to Ebadur’s house in Jharnapar area and demanded Tk 5 lakh as ransom from his family over the phone for his release.

They, however, slashed the amount to Tk 2 lakh but did not say where to pay it. By the time, Matin approached police and RAB for help.

RAB 9 Company Commander ASP Mainuddin Chowdhury said they detected the location through mobile phone tracking and conducted a raid on the house of Ebadur.

They found the body wrapped in seven sacks–one put into another.