Khagrachhari court sentences man to death for murder of wife

A Khagrachhari court has handed the death penalty to a man for the murder of his wife in 2018.

Khagrachhari Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 17 Nov 2019, 09:39 AM
Updated : 17 Nov 2019, 09:39 AM

District Judge Reza Md Alamgir Hasan of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal announced the verdict on Sunday, sentencing Nizam Uddin to death.

Nizam, a resident of Sadar Upazila’s Shalban area in Khagrachhari, was also fined Tk 50,000.

According to the case dossier, Nizam strangled his wife Shirin Akhter to death on Oct 4, 2018.

Shirin's father Tajul Islam later started a case against Nizam with Khagrachhari Sadar Police Station over the matter.

The trial started after police submitted the charges against Nizam on Mar 25 this year.