Woman jailed for killing

Staff Correspondent, Bogra
A court here yesterday sentenced a woman to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing her husband. Convict Monwara was second wife of victim 45-year-old Moshin Ali. The judge of Bogra Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-3 also fined Monwara Tk 20,000. According to the prosecution story, Monwara cut Moshin's penis at dead of night on June 23 in 2006 as he leased out 8 decimal of land against her will for marriage of Morsheda, an offspring of his first wife. Moshin died instantaneously. On investigation, Gabtoli police station sub-inspector (SI) Anwar Hossain submitted a charge sheet on June 31, 2007 against Monwara. Judge Nitai Chandra pronounced the verdict.