Murder, Rape: 3 get life term in 2 dists
A couple were awarded life term imprisonment for killing a youth in Kishoreganj while a man was sentenced to life imprisonment for strangling a girl after rape in Natore.
A Kishoreganj court on Tuesday sentenced a man and his wife to life term imprisonment for killing a youth in 2004, reports our Mymensingh correspondent.
The lifers are Md Alimuddin, 70, and his wife Noor Jahan, 60, of Aamchita village in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Md Abdur Rahim also fined them Tk 5 lakh each, in default, they are to suffer another two years in jail.
There was a longstanding conflict between Alimuddin and his neighbour Abdul Mannan, son of late Nuruzzaman, over a piece of land.
As a sequel to the conflict, Alimuddin and his wife attacked Mannan with sharp weapons on August 12 in 2004, leaving him dead on the spot. Locals then caught the duo and handed them over to police.
Later, the victim’s mother Fatema Khatun filed a case with Katiadi Police Station, accusing the couple.
Sub-inspector Ruhul Amin, also the investigation officer of the case, pressed charge sheet against the duo on October 8 the same year.
In Natore, a man was sentenced to life term imprisonment yesterday for killing his sister-in-law after rape in Sadar upazila, reports our correspondent.
The convict is Sohag Hossain, 25, son of Khalilur Rahman of Barogachha area in the district town.
According to the prosecution, during a visit to his in-laws’ house at Belghoria village in Sadar upazila in 2013, Sohag raped his 10-year-old sister-in-law in a jute field in the area and then strangled her.
Later, the victim’s father filed a case with Natore Police Station in this connection.
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