Two get life for murder

A court here on Wednesday sentenced twp people to life time imprisonment in a murder case. The convicts are Abdul Mannan, 40, son of Jalal Uddin Pramanik of village Khiar Murail and Shahinur Begum, 37, wife of Abdul Malek of village Kalai Kornipara in Kahalu upazila. The court also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer one year imprisonment more. According to the prosecution, Abdul Mannan developed an extra marital affair with his wife's elder sister Shahinur Begum. When the matter came to light Mannan's wife Jahanara Begum started protesting it. On the night of November 24, 2006 following a quarrel over the issue Mannan and Shahinur Begum beat Jahanara to death and later hanged the body from the beam of house to prove that she had committed suicide.