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A Cumilla court on Wednesday (27 March) sentenced a woman and three other people to death for killing her husband in Cumilla’s Homna upazila.
The convicts are Shahanaj Begum, Md Kuddus Mia, Abdul Khalek, Md Rajib.
Jahangir Hossain of Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court-4 handed down the verdict in the absence of the accused.
According to case statement, Abdul Jalil went missing on June 9, 2013, after leaving his home in Homna on his way to Dhaka.
Jalil's mutilated body was recovered from the roadside in Baher Khola area the next day.
His brother Tajul Islam filed a case with Homna Police Station against unidentified miscreants.
Later, the investigating officer of the case submitted the charge sheet to the court accusing five people -Abdul Jalil's wife Shahnaz Begum, Md Shahjahan, Md Kuddus Mia, Abdul Khalek and Md Rajib.
The court sentenced four people to death as the charges against them were proved after the prosecution examined 14 witnesses.
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