6 of a family get life for bid to kill housewife

4 November 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Bogra

A Bogra court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for attempting to murder a housewife after failing to realise Tk 50,000 dowry. The court also fined each of them Tk 5,000, in default, to suffer six more months in jail. Bogra Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 judge Jeb-un-Nesa handed down the verdict. The convicts are Ahimul Haque, 24, his brothers Enamul Haque, 18, and Nazrul Islam, 30, and their father Ibrahim, 60, Ibrahim's wife Fazila Khatun, 50, and his brother Asab Ali, 55. According to prosecution, since marriage a year ago, Shampa's husband Ahimul and other convicts were putting pressure on her to bring Tk 50,000 from her parents as dowry. As Shampa did not agree to their proposal, they beat up her mercilessly on June 15, 2006 and then set her afire in a bid to kill her. Shampa's father Shahadat Hossain filed a case against the aforesaid six immediately after the incident.