Three sentenced to death for killing housewife in Cumilla

A court in Cumilla has sentenced three people to death for the murder of a woman in 2016, reports UNB.

Cumilla district and sessions judge Md Helal Uddin handed down the punishment to the trio on Tuesday morning. However, another accused in the case was acquitted "for lack of evidence".

The death row convicts are Simon and Rakib of the Shikirgaon area of the Meghna upazila, and Tasir of the Manikarchar area of the upazila. Of them, Tasir was tried in absentia.

The acquitted person, Titu, is also from the same area.

According to the prosecution, the woman went missing on 20 June, 2016. Four days later, police recovered her semi-decomposed body from a paddy field near her house.

On 25 June, the woman's husband lodged a complaint against unidentified people at the Meghna police station. The cops later registered a murder case.

Subsequently, the investigating officer in the case submitted a charge-sheet against the four people.