Gazipur court sentences man to death for wife’s murder

A Gazipur court has sentenced a man to death for the murder of his wife.

Gazipur Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 23 Nov 2017, 06:10 AM
Updated : 23 Nov 2017, 11:09 AM

The Gazipur District and Sessions Judge’s Court declared the verdict in the 2015 case on Thursday.

The court also fined the convict Tk 10,000.

It also sentenced him to five years in prison and a Tk 5,000 fine in a separate charge. A failure to pay the fine carries a penalty of another additional month in prison.

The convict is Md Ainal Haque, 35, who was present in court to hear the verdict.

According to Public Prosecutor Haris Uddin Ahmed, local police went to investigate the death of Anwara Begum in 2015. Though her body had burned, the investigators found inconsistencies in the testimonies of her husband Ainal and Ainal’s brother Amzad Hossain, and detained them.

SI Md Rafiqul Islam filed a case against the two brothers over the murder, Ahmed said. The case accused them of strangling Anwara over a property dispute. They then poured petrol on the body and burned it, hoping to throw investigators off the trail.

PID investigated the case and filed charges only against Ainal, said PP Ahmed. The court only ruled on Ainal’s involvement.