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One gets life for patricide

31 August 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Tangail

A court in Tangail yesterday sentenced one person to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing father. The District and Sessions Judge's Court also fined the convict Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six months more in jail. According to the case, Habibur Rahman Hoby hit his father in the head by a rod at their house at Beribaid on September 5, 1996. Seriously injured Kazimuddin later died at Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital. After the incident, victim's another son Mozaffar Hossain filed a murder case with Madhupur Police Station. Habibur was tried in absentia.