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2 get life for killing a housewife

Tuesday, 11 February 2014


A court in Chuadanga has convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a housewife. The convicts are Milon, 35, son of Chhotoburo, and Ahad Ali, 43, son of Raisuddin Ahmed of Nafarkandi village of Sadar upazila of Chuadanga district. Two other accused Azizul and Mirajul were acquitted as the allegations against them could not be proved. Judge Nazim Ahmed of the Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Cout-1 handed down the verdict. According to the prosecution, housewife Shahana Begum of the village was beaten to death by the convicts for protesting the killing of a pet dog on May 15, 2009. Shahana’s husband police constable Abdul Khalek filed a case with Sadar Police Station against four people in this connection. Police submitted charge sheet against the four accused in 2012. After examining the records and witnesses, the judge pronounced the judgment on Monday afternoon, according to UNB.