A Gazipur court has sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife.
The Gazipur District and Sessions Judge’s Court handed down the verdict on Thursday.
The court also fined the convict Tk 10,000.
It also sentenced him to five years in prison and a Tk 5,000 fine in a separate charge in case of failure to pay the fine carries a penalty of another additional month in prison.
The convict is Md Ainal Haque, 35, who was present in court to hear the verdict.
According to Public Prosecutor Haris Uddin Ahmed, local police went to investigate the death of Anwara Begum in 2015. Though her body had burned, the investigators found inconsistencies in the testimonies of her husband Ainal and Ainal’s brother Amzad Hossain, and detained them.
SI Md Rafiqul Islam filed a case against the two brothers over the murder, Ahmed said. The case accused them of strangling Anwara over a property dispute. They then poured petrol on the body and burned it, hoping to throw investigators off the trail, according to bdnews24.com
PID investigated the case and filed charges only against Ainal, said PP Ahmed. The court only ruled on Ainal’s involvement.