Dhaka, July 3 -- A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced three people to life term imprisonment and acquitted four others in a case filed over the 2015 killing of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella in the capital's Gulshan area.

Dhaka's 3rd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Sheikh Samidul Islam delivered the verdict.

The three lifers are Tamjid Ahmed alias Rubel, Russell Chowdhury, and Minhajul Arefin alias Vagne Russell.

Those acquitted are BNP leader MA Quayum, his brother Abdul Matin, Shakhawat Hossain, and Sohel.

According to the case documents, among the accused, Tamjid Ahmed, Russell Chowdhury, Minhajul Arefin, Abdul Matin, and Shakhawat Hossain gave confessional statements before the court admitting their involvement in the killin...