DHAKA, Aug 7, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today sentenced two people to
life imprisonment in a case lodged over murder of Sri Lankan citizen Suhara
Umma in the capital in 2004.
Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-9 passed the
order, sentencing Mofiz Uddin Sarker alias Mofiz and Abu Zaher alias Zaher
Khan to life imprisonment and fined them Taka 30,000 each.
The court also acquitted another accused Abul Hossain as the charges
framed against his were not proved.
According to the case documents, Bangladeshi expatriate Jahirul Islam
married Sri Lankan citizen Suhara Umma in Kuwait and they started living in
Shaympur, Dhaka with their son.
On January 27, 2004, Jahirul’s tenant Abul Hossain’s brother-in-law
Mofiz and his friend Zaher broke into Umma’s flat and strangled her to death.
Umma’s brother-in-law Abbas Ali filed the case with Shyampur Police
Station the next day. Police later filed charge sheet against three. The
court today came up with the judgement after examining 12 of the 22
witnesses.