A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced two persons to death for killing a mother and her daughter in the city’s Agrabad area in March last year.
The convicts are Abu Raihan, 27, son of Chittagong district police Havildar Abul Bashar, and Md Shahid, driver at a rest house at Khulshi area in the city.
Chittagong Speedy Trial Tribunal’s Judge Muhitul Haque Enam Chowdhury handed down the verdict.
Public Prosecutor advocate Md Ayub Khan said the two convicts were present in the courtroom when the verdict was pronounced.
“The court found them guilty of the crime after examining case documents and testimonies of 30 witnesses,” he said.
According to the case statement, the convicts hacked to death 47-year-old Rizia Khatun, wife of C&F businessman Rezaul Karim, and her 17-year-old daughter Saima Naznin, who was a secondary school certificate exam candidate. The mother and the daughter were at home in Agrabad-CDA Residential Area when they were killed on March 24, 2014.
Police recovered a knife, a pair of jeans, a shirt, two bottles of petrol kept in a bag, seven SIM cards and a towel from the crime scene.
Rizia’s husband Rezaul lodged a murder case on the day of the incident while detectives arrested Shahid in Khulshi area and Raihan in the capital’s Fakirapool area the following day.
Shahid and Raihan were indicted on July 8 last year and the case was transferred to the tribunal from Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Court on February 2 this year.
