Wife-killer gets death as son bears witness
A man has been awarded death sentence for killing his wife, ironically on the basis of the evidence provided by his 10-year-old son.
Gopalganj Additional District and Sessions Judge Golam Murshed, also the judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, yesterday delivered the verdict, ordering execution of the death sentence by hanging the convict, Tuhin Kazi.
Tuhin tied the mouth of his wife Mina Sultana and hacked her to death at Mani Khar village in Gopalganj Sadar upazila at around 9:30pm on August 10 in 2007 and police filed a case the next day, goes the prosecution.
Tuhin's 10-year-old son Akash, the only witness to the crime, told the court that he awoke from sleep hearing groaning of his mother. Then he saw that his father was stabbing his mother with a kitchen knife. The bed and the floor were all wet with the blood gushing out of his mother's body.
The body bore the marks of about 40 strikes of the kitchen knife, adds the prosecution.
“Tuhin earlier beat up Mina for dowry and sent her to her father's house.
The day before the murder, Mina's poor father persuaded her to go back to her husband's house. But Tuhin killed her,” said Additional Public Prosecutor Shahiduzzaman Pintu.
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