Bangladesh HC upholds death penalty of 20 students

THE HIGH COURT on Sunday upheld a trial court verdict handing down the death penalty to 20 students of an elite university in Dhaka for beating to death a fellow second-year student over his alleged political affiliation in 2019.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Court officials said the two-judge bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain pronounced the verdict simultaneously, wrapping up the hearing on the mandatory death reference and