Barguna, Sept 29 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday sentenced a man to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing his wife.
Md Hafizur Rahman, judge of the Barguna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge, also fined condemned convict Siddique Tk 20,000 and four others Tk 10,000 each.
The lifers are Siddique’s father Hashem Gazi, his mother Parul Begum, his younger brother Khokon and his friend Liton. All hail from Purbo Ranipur village in Betagi upazila.
According to the prosecution, Siddique along with other convicts beat his wife Sajeda Begum Baby, daughter of Abdul Aziz of Patuakhali’s Mirzaganj upazila, to death on July 20, 2002 for dowry.
Later, Abdul Aziz filed a case with Betagi Police Station on August 13 accusing the five.