Three get life for murder in Sylhet
A court here on Sunday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a young man in 2009.
The convicts are Goyas Mia alias Goyas, a Bangladesh expatriate in Saudi Arabia, his wife Rozina Begum and Iqbal Hossain Bakul, son of Abdul Matin of Hawsha village in Sadar upazila.
The court fined each of them Tk 20,000 in the murder case and Tk 5,000 in the kidnapping case, in default they are to suffer 18 months more in jail.
According to the prosecution, Goyas planned to kill Ali Akbar Sumon, son of Cherag Ali of Pashchimpara village in the upazila, after he came to know upon his return from Saudi Arabia that his wife Rozina had developed an extramarital relationship with Akbar.
As per the plan, Goyas called Sumon to his house on September 25, 2009. Later, his body was recovered from a haor (water body) on September 28.
Victim's brother Ali Ahsan Sohel filed two cases-one for killing Sumon and another for kidnapping him.
Police submitted the charge sheet in both the cases on September 4 in 2010.
After examining the records and witnesses, Judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal Dilip Kumar Debnath handed down the verdicts.
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