Man gets death penalty for killing wife

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in the district's Fatickchhari upazila in 2011.

The convict, Eliash, of Kechiya village, did not want to marry his cousin and also his girlfriend Papiya Begum for her dark complexion, but later he had to do so under family pressure in 2011, according to the case statement.

The same year, on October 14, Eliash strangled Papiya with a rope outside their home.