, Feb. 5 -- The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday sentenced ex-Awami League MP Muhammad Saiful Islam and five other accused to death in connection with a case over the burning of six bodies in Ashulia during the July-August uprising.

The three-member bench of ICT-2 led by its Chairman Justice Nazrul Islam pronounced the judgment.

It asked the authorities concerned to confiscate the property of former MP of Dhaka-19 constituency Saiful Islam.

The five other condemned convicts are former Officer-in-Charge of Ashulia police station AFM Sayed alias Rony, former sub-inspector Abdul Malek, constables Mukul Chokdar, ex-assistant sub-inspector Biswajit Saha and Awami League leader Rony Bhuiyan.

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