Sayeed Muhammad: A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to life term in jail for throwing acid on a student of Eden Women’s College in Dhaka in 2013.
Judge Pradip Kumar Roy of the First Additional District & Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka handed down the verdict in presence of the convict Md Monir Uddin, 28, of Budishwar under Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria, reports The Daily Star. The verdict came upon completion of the examination of documents and 21 prosecution witnesses. The court also slapped a Tk one lakh fine to be handed over to the victim’s family, acquitting another accused Masum, a friend of the convict. Monir threw acid on Sharmin Akter Ankhi at a marriage registrar’s office in the capital’s Chankharpool on January 15, 2013 as she refused his marriage proposal, according to the prosecution. The victim’s brother Mohiuddin Ahmed filed a case with Bangshal Police Station accusing Monir and his friend Masum, while police booked the culprit from Kurkutichhari in Barkolupazila of Rangamati on January 26 the same year. On March 14, 2013, detectives pressed charges against the two accused and the court indicted the accused duo on November 7 the same year.
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