A court in Karimganj, Kishoreganj has sentenced seven people, including a father and son, to life imprisonment for beating housewife Jyotsna Begum to death over a dispute regarding cooking stove smoke. Each convict was also fined one lakh taka. The verdict was delivered on Tuesday morning by Md. Zahir Uddin, judge of the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 of Kishoreganj, with all seven convicts present in court.
According to the case details, the victim and the accused lived in the same courtyard in Jatiapara area of Gujadia union in Karimganj upazila. On February 16, 2016, following an argument over the smoke from the cooking stove, the accused beat Jyotsna Begum, striking her with iron rods, wooden beams, sticks, and tree branches. When her brother's wife Ayesha Akhter came to her rescue, she was also injured in the attack.
Jyotsna Begum later died that night while undergoing treatment at Kishoreganj Modern Sadar Hospital. The victim's husband Habibur Rahman filed a case in this connection. Following a long trial, the court delivered the verdict on Tuesday, while four other accused were acquitted.
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