Man gets life term for killing wife
A court in Kushtia yesterday handed down life imprisonment to a man for killing his wife in 2014 in Bheramara upazila of the district.
The court also fined the man -- Md Bijoy Ali, 28, son of Sahabul Islam of Khemirdia of the upazila -- Tk 50,000. In default of the fine, he will have to serve an additional six months in jail.
Judge Munshi Moshur Rahman of Women and Children Repression Prevention Special Tribunal delivered the verdict.
On September 17, 2014, Bijoy strangulated his wife Bobita Khatun and later hung her from a ceiling a fan in their room to make it appear as if she had killed herself, said office of the public prosecutor.
An unnatural death case was filed with Bheramara Police Station the next day.
After the report of autopsy conducted on Bobita revealed that she was murdered, her father Kalu Malitha on October 17 the same year filed a murder case, accusing Bijoy.
Charge sheet in the case was submitted before the court on December 30, 2014.
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