A Pabna tribunal on Sunday sentenced a man to death for killing a housewife after his failed rape attempt in 2018.
Pabna Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Mizanur Rahman handed down the punishment.
The court also fined the convict Tutul Char, son of Atahar Mallik of Paikerhati village in Sathia upazila, Tk 10,000 -in default to suffer five years more in rigorous imprisonment for attempting to rape the woman.
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The court also fined the convict Tk 5,000 more in default to suffer for two years in jail on charge of hiding the body.
According to the prosecution, the convict Tutul tried to rape Aleya Khatun, wife of Ardosh Mallik of Paikarhati village after getting her alone in a field.
As Tutul failed to violate her he strangled her to death by wrapping sari on her neck and kept the body in a paddy field.
A missing complaint was lodged with Sathia police.
Police arrested Tutul and following his confessional statement, Aleya’s body was recovered from the paddy field, six days after she murdered.
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Shabana Akter lodged another complaint with the recovery of the body of her daughter with Sathia Police.
Later police registered a murder case and submit a chargesheet against Tutul on January 31, 2018.