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One to die for killing wife

9 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Bandarban

Bandarban district and sessions judge in a verdict yesterday sentenced a young man to death for killing his wife. Convict Mohammad Belal and his wife Henuara Begum hailed from Baro Hatia village in Lohagara upazila in Chittagong district. Bandarban police on May 13, 2008 recovered the mutilated body of Henuara, 20, from a ditch in Sualok area in Bandarban Sadar. Belal was arrested five days after recovery of the body. He later gave confessional statement under Section 164 to Bandarban senior judicial magistrate Mohammad Faruq. In the statement, Belal confessed to killing his wife on charges of extra-marital affairs. The convict can appeal to the higher court within next seven days.