Two to die for killing college girl, minor boy

A Narsingdi court yesterday sentenced a youth to death for killing a college girl in 2015.

The convict is Al-Amin, 28, son of Miar Uddin of Baznabo Syed Para village in Belabo upazila of the district.

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According to the case statement, Al-Amin had been trying to develop an affair with Rinvi Akhter Dipa, 22, a BBA first-year student at Korotia College in Tangail, for the last couple of years but he failed to get any response.

Al-Amin stabbed Dipa with a sharp weapon, when she came to visit her parents during summer vacation, leaving her seriously injured, in the evening of May 7, 2015.

Dipa, daughter of Syed Shamsuzzaman of the village, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital the same night.

The following day, victim's brother Atikuzzaman Ankur, 42, filed a case with Belabo Police Station accusing Al-amin.

On May 9, villagers caught Al-Amin, beat him up mercilessly and later handed him over to the police.

After examining the records and evidence given by 12 witnesses, Judge Fatema Nazib of the District and Sessions Judge's Court handed down the verdict.

Away in Habiganj, a court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing an eight-year-old boy in Baniachang upazila in the district in 2007, reports our Moulvibazar correspondent.

Additional Judge of District and Sessions Judge's Court Mafroza Parvin sentenced Abdur Rashid, 34, to death, and acquitted Siraj Mia and Saleh Ahmed, as the charges brought against them could not be proved.

According to the prosecution, Abdur Rashid of Trikor village in the upazila snatched a mobile phone from Mehedi Hasan Rusell, son of Abdul Hamid of the village on October 8, 2007.

He later stabbed the boy to death, in a bid to hide the incident, and dumped the body in a nearby bush the same evening.

Victim's mother Swapna Begum filed a case with Baniachang Police Station on October 9, accusing Abdur Rashid and two others.