Rifat Sharif’s wife Aysha Siddika Minni and five others have been sentenced to death for killing him in Barguna in broad daylight last year.

Security has been beefed up in Barguna town ahead of the verdict in Rifat Sharif murder case today.

A tribunal here on Thursday fixed March 9 to deliver its verdict in the case over killing of Samia Afrin Saima after rape in the city’s Wari area last year.