Sylhet, Aug. 3 -- A Sylhet court on Sunday convicted a pair of brothers in a case filed over a double-murder in 2007, and sentenced

Judge of the Sylhet Additional Session Judge Court-5 Jhalak Roy handed down the punishment.

The court also sentenced another accused to life imprisonment and two others to ten-month in jail in the case.

The condemned convicts were identified as Borhan Uddin, 46 and Abdun Nur, 53, two sons of Abu Shaheed of Kanaighat upazila of the district. The court also fined them Tk 5,000 each.

They were tried in absentia.

The court also sentenced Borhan Uddin to five years jail and fined Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six months in jail while Abdun Nur to one year jail in another section of the case.

The lifer was...