District and Session Judge AKM Zahir Ahmed on Thursday handed down the punishment to Abu Siddique of Naraujole village in the Sadar upazila.

Siddique had taken his wife Sabina Khatun Begum, 20 and sister-in-law Shahida Khatun, 17, to Kolkata on May 1 last year on the plea of providing jobs and sold them at a brothel there.

The women managed to escape from the brothel and returned to their parents.

The victims' mother filed a case with Satkhira than under the Woman and Children Repression Preventive Act.

In another incident on the same day, a housewife was beaten to death at Shubhankar Kati village in Tala upazila, allegedly by her husband for dowry.

Police said Ruhul Amin had married Rokeya Khatun, 18, six month back, taking Tk 5000 as dowry. He demanded more Tk 5000 as dowry and used to beat his wife often for this.

On Thursday, he beat and killing her.

To suppress the cause of her death, he poured insecticide into her month and told neighbours that she committed suicide.

But police who rushed there on information found injury marks on the body.

Police arrested Ruhul Amin and filed a case with Tala thana.