Siblings get life imprisonment for acid attacks on cousins

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A Chattogram court Wednesday sentenced a woman and her brother to life imprisonment for attacking their two cousins with acid in 2010, reports UNB.

Convicts Sharmin Farzana Latif Saki, 33, and her brother Muhammad Iftekhar Latif, 30, were also fined with Tk 30,000 and Tk 50,000. In case of non-payment, they will receive an additional prison sentence of one year.

Chattogram’s fifth additional metropolitan sessions judge Nargis Akhter passed the order.

Iftekhar and Sharmin were taken to jail after the veridict, advocate Taslim Uddin, an additional prosecutor at the court, told the news agency.

According to the case statement, they threw acid on their cousins Muntaha Karina, 31, and Salsabil Tasnim, 27, at their residence in Chawkbazar's Joynagar area of the city.

Muntaha and Salsabil's father Anwarul Mubin filed a case over the incident.

On 14 December, 2010, the police filed a charge sheet against Iftekhar and Sharmin.