Hooghly: As many as 21 workers of CPI(M) have been sentenced to life term by a local court here in a two-year-old case of murder of their party leader.
The additional district and sessions judge of Arambagh s first track court, Goutam Sengupta, yesterday sentenced 21 party workers including, local leader Sk Asgar Ali, for killing Jahur Ali, a CPI(M) peasant leader on May 25, 2006.
The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of them. According to prosecution, Jahur Ali of Bulundi village was killed by the 21 CPI(M) men, led by Sk Asgar Ali, while he was returning home from mosque.
