The High Court today commuted the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment in a sensational schoolboy murder case filed in Gazipur in 2017.

The convicts are Shaheb Ali and Ibrahim Hossain Suman.

A Gazipur court on August 28, 2018 sentenced Shaheb and Ibrahim to death and sentenced another accused Nahid Islam to life imprisonment for killing Injamul Huq, a child from Auchpara at Tongi.

Injamul (14), a class VII student of Uttara Srishti School and College in Dhaka, was kidnapped and murdered by the convicts for ransom in Gazipur's Tongi on October 17, 2017, said Deputy Attorney General Dr Md Bashir Ullah.

The HC bench of Justice Krishna Debnath and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam also commuted the jail sentence of convict Nahid from life imprisonment to 10 years' imprisonment.

The HC bench came up with the verdict today after hearing death reference, and the appeals of the convicts challenging the trial court judgement in the murder case.

DAG Bashir told The Daily Star that the HC commuted the death sentence of Shaheb as he did not give confessional statement to the magistrate and Ibrahim was a minor when the incident took place.

Nahid was also a teenager during the incident in 2017, he said, adding that all the convicts are in jail.

He added the state will move an appeal before Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for enhancing the punishment of the convicts.

Lawyer AKM Fazlul Huq Khan Farid appeared for the convicts.