Bagerhat Correspondent :
Md Zakaria Hossain, Additional District and Session Judge, Bagerhat, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday, convicted Shahidul Islam alias Sayeedul (45), son of one late Shahab Uddin Shaikh of village Baranababpur under Rampal Upazila in Bagerhat district and sentenced him to be hanged till his death on the charge of killing his wife Nazma Begum (42).
The prosecution story, in short, is that after the death of her first husband Zahidul Islam, Nazma was given married to her brother-in-law (younger brother of the husband) Shahidul Islam. After the second marriage she gave-birth a male child named Junayed (7). But her second husband used to live an idle life. As a result, Nazma Begum was forced to work in the houses of others as a maid servant in order to maintain her family. But the husband did not like it. Following the matter quarrel used to take place very often between the husband and the wife. On February 21 at night in the year 2012 she was asked by her neighbourer Asia Begum to do some household works. But she failed to do so in the face of her husband’s resistance and at one stage she went to bed along with her son Junayed and fell asleep.
In the following morning (on February 22) when Nazma Begum was taking preparations to go to the house of Asia Begum to discharge her duty as a maid servant the husband tried to blame her to be a prostitute. As a result, a quarrel took place between the tow and at one stage the husband became furious and chopped her with a sharp knife left and right. As a result, she was fatally injured and she succumbed to her injuries on the way to the hospital. On the same day her elder son Abdullah Al-Mamun registered a case with Rampal PS accusing his paternal uncle Shahidul Islam. Police investigated into the matter and submitted a charge sheet to the court against Shahidul Islam.
The learned judge examined the evidences and witnesses and found the accused guilty and awarded him the aforesaid punishment.
