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Life term for wife murder

9 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Tangail

A court here yesterday sentenced one person for life for killing wife. Shahadat Hossain, 30, was also fined Tk 5,000, in default, to suffer six months more in jail. The convict hails from village Taltala under Kalihati upazila. According to prosecution story, Shahadat strangled his wife Amena Begum, 30, at their house on March 29, 2007 over a family feud. Amena's father Yousuf Ali of village Bhurunga under Nalitabari upazila in Sherpur filed a murder case with Kalihati Police Station.