A Joypurhat court yesterday sentenced three people to life term imprisonment for killing a medicine trader in 2015.

The lifers are Emran Hossain Jony, 30, of Khetlal upazila, Robiul Islam Biplob, 19, and Shakil Hossain Mondal, 19, of Sadar upazila.

District and Sessions Judge Begum Momotaj Parvin delivered the verdict in a crowded courtroom in presence of the three accused.

They were also fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer another one year in jail.

According to the prosecution, Tariqul Islam ran a medicine shop in Amtoli area of Joypurhat town.

One of the accused lost his wallet at the shop. The three convicts called Tariqul out of his shop on September 18 in 2015 and stabbed him to death.

Later police recovered the body.

Abdus Kuddus, father of the deceased, then filed a murder case with Joypurhat Police Station, accusing the above mentioned three.

Police filed charge sheet to the court in December the same year.