A Dhaka court today (2 July) sentenced a woman to death for killing her husband after he married for a second time.
Judge Nazmun Nahar Nipu of the 16th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka delivered the verdict in the presence of the convict, Fatema Begum alias Shilpi.
The court also sentenced her to seven years in prison for concealing the body and fined her Tk10,000, in default of which she will have to serve three more months in simple imprisonment, Additional Public Prosecutor Khandaker Shafi Newaz Nasir confirmed.
According to the case statement, around 10:30pm on 30 May 2021, Banani police recovered the headless torso of a man from inside a blue drum in the Amtoli area on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Road.
Later that night, Tejgaon Industrial Area police recovered two severed legs and two severed arms from a bag near the Ena counter at Mohakhali Bus Terminal. In total, six parts of the body were recovered from different places over two days.
Following the incident, detectives from the Gulshan Division of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police launched an investigation and arrested Fatema within 12 hours.
During police questioning, Fatema reportedly said family disputes, disagreements over money and her husband's multiple marriages had created tensions between her and Moyna Mia alias Shakil, an autorickshaw driver.
According to the case documents, Fatema gave her husband sleeping pills to make him unconscious, then killed him and cut the body into six pieces. She put the head in a red cloth bag, the torso in a blue water drum, and the severed arms and legs in a large cloth bag.
She later hired a rickshaw for Tk1,300 and dumped the torso in the Amtoli area before leaving the bag containing the severed arms and legs near the Ena bus counter in Mohakhali. She then dumped the bag containing the head into Gulshan Lake from the eastern side of Banani Bridge No 11, the case statement said.
Nasrin, the victim's second wife, filed the case with Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station. On 24 October 2022, Inspector Kazi Shariful Islam of the Cantonment Zonal Team submitted the charge sheet against Fatema. The court framed charges against her on 12 March 2023. During the trial, the court recorded testimonies of 17 out of 26 prosecution witnesses.
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