A court here on Monday sentenced five people to life imprisonment and six others to three years imprisonment for killing a garments trader in 2010.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Moazzem Hossain pronounced the verdict. Three other accused in the case were acquitted.

The convicts are Akram Hossain, 34, Razib Ahmed, 32, Rifat, 30, Imtiaz Shahin Jony, 35 and Maksudul Hasan, 33.

According to the prosecution, the convicts killed Zonaid Monir alias Zonu, a garment trader, after calling him out of his house on August 4 in 2010 and dumped the body in Dariapur canal.

Two days after the incident, the victim's brother Masud Mia of Kandipara in the town filed a murder case with Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station.

Later, accused Akram made a confessional statement under Section 164 to the court. According to his statement, they murdered garment owner Zonaid as he was not willing to give them the money they demanded.