Sourav Chowdhury was killed in 2014 in West Bengal's Bamangachi in North 24 Parganas.
Highlights
- 21-year-old was hacked to death for campaigning against illegal liquor
- Court convicted 12 of 13 accused, including the local drug trade chief
- Lawyers for the defendants had said they will appeal in a higher court
Eight people have been sentenced to death by a local court in West Bengal for the 2014 murder of a college student who had led a campaign against illegal liquor and drug dens in the North 24 Parganas district's Bamangachi area.
Sourav Chowdhury, 21,
was killed brutally in 2014 and his body, hacked to pieces, was found on train tracks near where he lived, about 30 km from Kolkata.
Nearly two years after his death, a court on Barasat had convicted 12 out of the 13 accused in the case last week. Among those convicted was the main accused Shyamal Karmarkar, who was believed to have controlled the illicit liquor and drug trade in the area.
The court had convicted 12 of the 13 accused last week.
The lawyer for the defendants had said that they will appeal in a higher court.
According to his family, Sourav had apparently been called out of his house at Bamungachi by some locals on the night. When his family went out to look for him, they couldn't find him and registered a complaint with the police.