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Life term for acid attack

12 July 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Chapainawabganj

A Chapainawabganj court yesterday sentenced one person to life term imprisonment for throwing acid on his wife in 2000. Judge Anwar Hossain of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal pronounced the verdict in absence of the accused. Convict Korban Ali is son of Sumuruddin of Ramkrishtopur-Jorbagan of Chapainawabganj municipality area. According to the prosecution story, mother of three Jarina Begum and her husband went to Mohanada river for a dip on April 5, 2000 at around 5:30am. When they reached the riverbank at Nayagola her husband suddenly threw acid on her inflicting serious burn injuries. The next day, victim's father Ekramul Haque filed a case with Chapainawabganj Sadar police station.