Judge AFM Aminul Islam handed down the death penalty to the victim's brother-in-law Khondoker Mahmud Elahi, his brother Captain Khondoker Iftekhar Elahi and their friend Hussain Kabir Pavel in a packed courtroom.

According to the prosecution, Iffat Bin Mahbub, an expatriate who had been living in London, was kidnapped from Rangpur town and murdered in a private car near Mahiganj in Peergachha on May 16, 2006.

After the judgment, as the police were taking the convicts to prison van from the courtroom, photojournalists started taking photographs of the convicts.

But all of a sudden Captain Iftekhar Elahi and two other convicts, who were handcuffed to one another, started punching and kicking the photojournalists, although some 200 policemen were deployed in the area for security purposes.

Sujauddin Chhoton of ATN Bangla, Jahangir Alam Aakash of CSB News, Selim Jahangir of Janakantha, Asaduzzaman Asad of Amar Desh, Abdullah Iqbal of Jugantor, Badrul Hasan of Sunshine, and TV cameramen Liton and Masud were injured in the attack.

They later called on Superintendent of Police Didar Ahmed and complained about the inaction of the policemen during the attack.