A court here today sentenced two persons including a woman to life-term imprisonment for killing a woman in Basail upazila of the district in 2018.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Afroza Begum handed down the verdict to Monowara Akhter, 36, and Uzzal Islam, 33, residents of Basail Purbapara village in the upazila, reports BSS.
The court also fined each of them Taka 20,000, in default, to suffer four months more in jail.
According to the prosecution, the convicts strangled the woman, namely Jharna Rani Das, to death over a dispute over money and buried her inside a room of Monowara's house at Basail Purbapara on October 28 in 2018.
Following the murder, Jharna's husband filed a case the next day with Basail Thana accusing them. Upon completion of the investigation, police pressed the charge-sheet on April 9 in 2019.
Testifying witnesses and evidence, the court gave the verdict in the presence of the accused.
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