Jashore, Aug. 4 -- A Jashore court on Sunday sentenced three people to death and another to two years in jail in a case over the killing of a three-wheeler driver in Bagherpara upazila of the district around five years back.

Jashore Additional District and Sessions Judge of the 2nd court Jayanti Rani Das passed the order in the presence of one of the death-row convicts; said the court's Additional Public Prosecutor SM Abdur Razzak.

Those sentenced to death are Jewel Khan, son of Jahangir Khan of Rampur village in Shalikha upazila of Magura, Harun-or-Rashid, son of Selim Hossain of the same upazila, and Alamin, son of Hazrat Ali, a resident of Uttar Lalitadah village in Jashore Sadar.

They were fined Tk 40, 000 each while only Harun was...