UNB, Sylhet :
A court here on Wednesday sentenced Badrul Alam, a former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, to life term imprisonment for his attempt to kill college student Khadiza Begum Nargis in October last.
Metropolitan Session’s Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha handed down the verdict.
On March 5, the same court fixed yesterday (March 8) for delivering its verdict in the case.
Of the total 37 witnesses, 34 made their depositions before the court in the case.
Khadiza, 23, a student of Sylhet Women’s College and daughter of Masuk Miah of Hausa village in Sadar upazila, was stabbed by Badrul, a resident of Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj district, on October 3 last on her way back home from MC College after appearing at an examination following the refusal of his proposal for having an affair with him. Badrul confessed to hacking Khadiza in his statement made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc) on October 5 last year. Police submitted the chargesheet against the lone accused, Badrul, on November 8 last. The court indicted Badrul n the case on November 29 last.
After more than three months of treatment and intensive care, Khadiza returned home from the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar on February 24. On February 26, Khadiza appeared before the court for the first time and made her deposition.
On March 1, the case was transferred to the Metropolitan Session’s Judge Court from the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court as the court lacks the authority to give the highest punishment.
