Jailed for killing husband
A court here yesterday sentenced a housewife for life for killing her husband in 2008. Convict Majeda Begum alias Kushi, 37, was wife of van-puller Abdul Gani Sheikh, 40. The court also fined her Tk 5000, in default, to suffer another one year in jail. Acting District and Sessions Judge Md Rezaul Karim pronounced the verdict. According to the prosecution, on February 6, 2008, Majeda and her husband Gani locked in an altercation over a trivial matter. At one stage, Majeda stabbed Gani with a kitchen knife, leaving him dead on the spot. On the same night Kamal Sheikh, brother of the deceased filed a case in this connection.
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