Woman gets death penalty for killing husband in Rangpur

A court yesterday sentenced a woman to death for killing her husband on JB Sen road in Mahiganj-Satmatha area of Rangpur city on April 4, 2010, over family feud.

The convict, Sufia Begum, 45, went into hiding after securing bail on January 22, 2013.

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Sufia spiked a glass of milk with sedative and served it to her husband Ahsanul Haque Belal, 50, who was a Bangladeshi expatriate in Saudi Arabia. Later, she chopped the body into three pieces and was caught by locals when she went to a graveyard in Chilahat Jhar area to dump it.