Two siblings get life for acid attack on cousins
Thursday, 2 June 2022
A Chattogram court has sentenced a woman and her brother to life in prison for attacking two cousins with acid, reports bdnews24.com
Chattogram Fifth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Nargis Akhter delivered the verdict in the decade-old case on Wednesday.
Both convicts Farzana Latif Saki (35) and Iftekhar Latif Sadi (34) were in court to hear the verdict. They were taken to jail after the verdict was delivered.
At the time the incident took place, the victims - Mumtaha Karina and Salnabil Tasnim - were 19 and 16, respectively.
The convicts are their cousins.
The two were sentenced to life in prison under one section of the 2002 Acid Control Act, said Taslim Uddin, an additional prosecutor at the court. They also received a seven-year prison sentence under another section of the law, he said. Both sentences will be served concurrently.
Saki was also fined Tk 50,000, while Sadi was fined Tk 30,000 by the judge.
According to the case statement, Saki lived in Chattogram City's Badurtala area. On September 20, 2010, she went to stay at her aunt's home in the city's Joynagar.