CHUADANGA: A district court has sentenced death penalty to a man for killing his wife over dowry in Chuadanga in 2011.
Judge Md Zia Haidar of Chuadanga Women and Children Repression prevention tribunal delivered the verdict on Tuesday noon (October 16).
The death row convict is Mamun Ali, son of one Akubbar Ali of Sadabari village in Damurhuda upazila of the district. However, he is absconding.
According to court sources, Mamun killed his wife Sagari Khatun after failing to get dowry from her on February 5 in 2011. On the next day, victim’s father filed a murder case with Damurhuda police station accusing four people.
BDST: 1640 HRS, OCT 16, 2018
AP