5 get RI for acid attack in Netrakona

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UNB, Netrakona :
 An Acid Crimes Control Tribunal here on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for hurling acid on a housewife and her two daughters on May 19, 2007.
The convicts are Bacchu Miah, 30, Hanif Miah, 22, Rukku Miah, 25, Jamal Hossain, 60 and Buruj Ali, 25, all residents of Ramrani village in Dhurgapur upazila.
The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each.
According to prosecution, the convicts threw acid on Sheuli Akhter, a housewife of the same village, and her two daughters on May 19, 2007 over previous enmity, leaving the trio critically injured.
Later, Sheuli filed a case on May 25 accusing five of them.

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