A court in Cumilla has sentenced three people to death for the murder of a woman in 2016.
Cumilla district and sessions judge Md Helal Uddin handed down the punishment to the trio on Tuesday morning. However, another accused in the case was acquitted "for lack of evidence".
The death row convicts are Simon and Rakib of the Shikirgaon area of the Meghna upazila, and Tasir of the Manikarchar area of the upazila. Of them, Tasir was tried in absentia, reports UNB.
The acquitted person, Titu, belongs to the same area.
According to the prosecution, the woman went missing on June 20, 2016. Four days later, police had recovered her semi-decomposed body from a paddy field near her house.
On June 25, the woman's husband lodged a complaint against unidentified people at the Meghna police station. The cops later registered a murder case.
Subsequently, the investigating officer in the case submitted a chargesheet against the four people.