Khadiza wants death penalty for attacker
About four months after a cleaver attack sent her into a coma, undergraduate student Khadiza Begum Nargis yesterday testified in a Sylhet court and demanded the capital punishment for the attacker.
The 23-year-old was the last of 34 witnesses to give deposition on the October 3 attack.
Khadiza said Badrul Alam hacked her with an intention to kill, according to court sources.
The court will start hearing arguments on March 1, said Mahfuzur Rahman, additional public prosecutor of the court.
Khadiza, a second year student of Sylhet Government Women's College, came under attack after she refused to get into a relationship with Badrul.
Badrul is a suspended student of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) and suspended leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League unit at the university. He confessed to the crime in court. After being treated at hospitals in Dhaka and Savar, Khadiza returned home in Sylhet on February 24.
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