Three to die, eight get life in three murder cases

Three people were sentenced to death and eight others to life imprisonment in three separate murder cases in Narsingdi, Gazipur and Mymensingh yesterday.

A Narsingdi court sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her son in 2011 following an extramarital relationship.

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Narsingdi Additional District and Sessions Judge Shaheen Uddin sentenced Jahanara Akhter, 28, daughter of Kabir Hossain of Chalna village and Hanif Sheikh, 30, son of Abdus Sattar of Khalapara village in Palash upazila, to death and fined them Tk 10,000 each, reports UNB.

According to the prosecution, Jahanara, wife of Babul Hossain, a Dubai expatriate, developed an extramarital relationship with Hanif Sheikh in absence of her husband.

As Sanaullah, 6, son of Jahanara informed the matter to his father over phone, Jahanara along with Hanif strangled him to death in her house on October 5, 2011.

Deeply shocked at the news, Babul returned home the following day and filed a case against them.

Later, police arrested Jahanara and Hanif.

After examining records and witnesses, Narsingdi Additional District and Sessions Judge Shaheen Uddin handed down the verdict.

Our Gazipur correspondent reported that a court here yesterday sentenced a woman to death for killing her mother-in-law in Kaliakoir upazila in January last year following a family feud.

District and Sessions Judge AKM Enamul Haque passed the order.

The death penalty awardee is Rozina, wife of Parvez of Mouchak Uttarpara in the upazila. Rozina hacked her mother-in-law Parveen Akhter on the night of January 15 last year while she was asleep.

Parvez was at a relative's house at the time of the incident. Locals caught Rozina the following day and handed her over to the police

After investigation, police pressed charges against Rozina on May 31. After examining the case record and 13 witnesses, the judge pronounced the verdict. 

In Mymensingh, A court here sentenced eight people to life imprisonment in a murder case yesterday. The court also fined the convicts Tk 5000 each. In default, they are to suffer six months more in jail, court sources said.

The convicts are Md Ziauddin, Abdul Awal Member, his son Nasirul Haque,  Sumon Miah, Humayan Kabir, Alamgir Kabir, Abdul Baten and Sirajul Islam, They all hail from  Gandokhola  village in Trishal upazila of the district.

According to the prosecution, a gang of robbers entered the house of Ramzan Ali of Gandokhola  village on the night of September 23, 2003.

When the house owner Ramzan Ali tried to resist the gang, they stabbed him. Critically injured Ramzan was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) where he where he succumbed to his injuries the following day.

Arif Robbani, son of Ramzan lodged a case with Trishal Police Station on September 31.

Later, police pressed charge-sheet against the eight.

After examining the witnesses and evidence, Judge Mohammad Johirul Kabir of the Second Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court handed down the verdict.