A Dinajpur court on Tuesday convicted the accused Rabiul Islam and sentenced him to 10 years in prison in a case filed in connection with the attack on Ghoraghat upazila UNO Wahida Khanam and her father on September 3 in 2020.
Sadia Sultana, judge of Dinajpur additional district and session judge court-3, handed down the verdict in the morning, said the public prosecutor of the court.
The court also slapped him with a fine of Tk10,000, failure to pay which would result in an additional six months in jail.
On September 11, Rabiul Islam, 43, who had been suspended from his post of the gardener over a theft case, was detained from his house.
Later, Rabiul also confessed to committing the crime to the Dinajpur court.
On September 3, Rabiul and others attacked the official residence of Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida. They first tied up the doorman and broke in through the ventilators at the back of the house.
The attackers hacked Wahida indiscriminately, leaving her with critical head injuries, and went on to attack her father Ali Sheikh, 70, who rushed in to save her.
The father and daughter were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital.
Later, the UNO was airlifted from Rangpur to the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force helicopter.
Several including a Jubo League leader have been detained and interrogated over the case.
On October 1, Wahida was discharged from the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital after about one month of treatment.