Bangladesh's High Court today upheld a trial court verdict sentencing to death 15 people including three army officers and a gangster, who had fled to India after the gruesome killing of seven people three years ago. <br/><br/>The abducting and killing of seven people, including councillor Nazrul Islam and lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar, in suburban port town of Narayanganj shocked the nation. <br/><br/>A spokesman of the Attorney General's office said, the High Court upheld the death sentence of 15 and commuted death penalties of 11 others to life imprisonment while the trial court had handed down death penalties to 26 accused. <br/><br/>The judgement awarded death penalty to two sacked military and a navy officers, a gangster and 11 ex-servicemen posted in elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion. A two-judge bench comprising Justices Bhabani Prasad Singha and Mustafa Zaman Islam delivered the entire verdict.