HC commutes Azam Reza's death sentence to life-term
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Azam Reza, who had been condemned to death for killing his architect wife Joyanti Reza in 2004, Monday got his capital punishment commuted to life imprisonment, reports UNB.
A division bench of the High Court, comprising Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman and Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, pronounced the judgment on a death reference case along with a jail appeal filed by Azam Reza, now in his mid 50s.
On January 17 in 2005, a Speedy Trial Tribunal here found Azam Reza, then vice-president of Dhaka Bank, guilty of murdering his wife Joyanti, also a teacher of Australian International School in the capital, and sentenced him to death.
In its judgment, the bench observed that it was not a planned murder
A division bench of the High Court, comprising Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman and Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, pronounced the judgment on a death reference case along with a jail appeal filed by Azam Reza, now in his mid 50s.
On January 17 in 2005, a Speedy Trial Tribunal here found Azam Reza, then vice-president of Dhaka Bank, guilty of murdering his wife Joyanti, also a teacher of Australian International School in the capital, and sentenced him to death.
In its judgment, the bench observed that it was not a planned murder