A Khulna court on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of his wife around five years back.
Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Mahamdua Khatun also fined the convict Tk 30,000, in default of which he will have to serve six more months’ imprisonment, the plaintiff’s Counsel KM Iqbal, also public prosecutor of the court, said.
The convict is Omar Faruk, son of Rustum Ali Farazi of Padiyadanga area under Khanjahan Ali police station in Khulna city.
According to the case statement, Faruk used to torture his wife Nupur over family feud since their marriage in 2015.
Nupur's father Khalilur Rahman came to know that her daughter’s body was lying in a garden on July 17, 2018.
Later he filed a murder case accusing Faruk in this connection.
Police pressed chargesheet against him on December 19, 2018.
After completing legal procedures, the court handed down the judgment in the presence of the accused.