2 including mother sentenced to death for killing 5-year-old Samiul
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DHAKA, Dec 20, 2020 (BSS) – A court here today sentenced two persons, including the mother, to death for killing five-year-old Khandaker Samiul Azim Wafi in June 2010.
The convicts are: Samiul’s mother Esha and Shamsuzzaman Arif alias Bakku, boyfriend of Esha.
Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 handed down the sentence in their absence.
The court also issued arrest warrants against them as they were absconding when the verdict was announced.
Samiul, a student of play group of Green Wood International School in Nabboddya Housing under Adabor Police Station, was allegedly killed by his mother Esha and her paramour Shamsuzzaman Arif in 2010.