3 of a family get life term for murder in Khulna

Dhaka – A court here on Thursday sentenced a man and his two uncles to life term imprisonment for killing a woman at Dhamshakhali village in Paikgacha upazila in Khulna in 2010.The lifers-Alauddin Gain, 26, victim’s husband and his uncles- Sukur Gain, and Jobed Ali Gain, 50—were fined Tk 15,000 each, in default, to suffer eight months more rigorous imprisonment.The convicts were present on the dock when Public Safety Tribunal judge SM Solaiman A Roy pronounced the verdict.According to the case statement, the convicts killed Rahima Khatun following enmity over a piece of land on March 30 in 2010, and dumped her body into a pond.Victim’s father recovered the body the next morning and filed a case accusing seven people, including her husband and his uncles, with Paikgacha Police Station over the murder.UNB news agency