Dhaka, July 30 -- A Sylhet court on Wednesday sentenced eight people to death and seven others to life term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy in Biswanath upazila in 2021.

Judge Syeda Amina Farhin of Sylhet Additional Session Judge Court-1 handed down the punishment.

The court also sentenced 17 others accused to two years of jail each.

The condemned convicts are Bangladeshi expatriate in UK Saiful Alam, Nazrul, Sadrul, Siraj, Jamal, Shahin, Abdul Jalil and Anwar while the lifers are Elias, Abdun Nur, Joynal, Ashique, Askir, Farid and Akbar.

According to the prosecution, Saiful Alam of Chaitannagar village in Biswanath Upazila had an enmity with Najir Uddin over digging the soil of a land owned by Najir.

An altercation ensued betwe...