The High Court has upheld the life imprisonment of a mother and the death sentence of her boyfriend for killing her four-year-old son in Narsingdi in 2006.
A Narsighdi court, in its 2009 verdict, found the mother, Afroza Sultana Nupur, and her boyfriend, Gazi Abdus Salam Ujjal, guilty of the murder. A High Court bench of Justice Soumendra Sarker and ANM Bashir Ullah issued the order on the murder case after the end of the appeal hearing yesterday, said Assistant Attorney General Aminur Rahman.
According to the case, the victim, whose father was an expatriate named Sohrab Hossain Bhuiyan Mamun living in Singapore, went missing on December 6, 2006 while playing outside his home.
Police found his body in a bush near his home on December 9. In August 2007, police submitted charge sheet against Nupur, Ujjal and his friend Harunur Rashid Gazi in the case.
Nupur said she had a relationship with Ujjal, whom she met at a mobile phone repair shop, and they wanted to get married.
She said Ujjal had told her that he would take her son away first and then take her, to start a family somewhere else. On December 6, Ujjal drugged the victim and took her away, but two days later he told Nupur that he had killed the boy because he hadn’t woken up.
The Narsingdi court recorded statements of 16 people in the case and pronounced the verdict on September 1, 2009. Harun was acquitted from the charges.
