Auto-rickshaw driver Yakub Ali and rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim were killed when Rony fired randomly from his Land Cruiser Prado in the night of Apr 14, 2015. Dhaka’s Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Judge Manjurul Islam sentenced Rony to life in prison instead of the death penalty “in consideration of his mental and physical condition at the time of the crime”. Standing in the dock with his chin up to get a clear sight of the judge in the packed courtroom, Rony was seen listening attentively to the verdict. While being escorted to the court’s holding cells, Rony stopped on the corridor again to let the photographers take more pictures. “Enough posing!” said Rony, with a contemptuous grin in his face, as they continued clicking even when the police officials started taking him away.

Source: bd News24 January 30, 2019 21:45 UTC