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Published : 20 Jul 2025, 05:12 PM
A Dhaka court has sentenced two men to death for strangling a woman and her daughter to death in Dhaka’s Kadamtali in 2010.
Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Nargis Islam delivered the verdict in the case on Sunday.
The death row convicts are Al-Amin and Miraj Molla. Both of them have also been fined Tk 20,000 each.
The two suspects were presented to the court before the declaration of the verdict. After the verdict was announced, they were sent to prison, according to Additional Public Prosecutor Waliul Tushar.
The case documents say that Yasmin Alam, the second wife of AKM Shah-e-Alam, and their daughter Irina Alam Tanha were strangled to death while they had their hands and feet tied between the night of May 7, 2010 and the morning of May 8, 2010.
Yasmin’s brother Monir Hossain filed the murder case at Dhaka’s Kadamtali Police Station. It was alleged that the murders were carried out over a family dispute with the support of the first wife of Yasmin’s husband Shah-e-Alam.
After the case was filed, police arrested Shah-e-Alam’s son from his first marriage and two of his accomplices -- Al Amin and Miraj -- from Patuakhali. They gave “confessional” statements to the court.
On Aug 31, 2010, Inspector Sheikh Mahbubur Rahman filed a chargesheet against the three suspects following an investigation. They were indicted on Jan 8, 2022.
Defence lawyer Mizanur Rahman claimed to the court that Shah Alam’s son was a minor at the time of the incident. The court ordered that the claim be investigated.
The investigation found that the boy was 14 years, eight months, and 23 days old. As a result, his case was sent to the children’s court. The trial is still ongoing.
The court heard the testimony of 15 witnesses against the other two suspects. Following the testimony and arguments from both sides, a verdict was declared on Sunday.
