High Court
has upheld the death sentence of Hitu Sheikh in Asiya’s rape and murder case in
Magura.
Justice
Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja delivered the verdict
on Monday.
The tribunal
sentenced the main accused, Hitu Sheikh, 47, to death and also fined him Tk
1,00,000 and acquitted the remaining three accused: Sajib Sheikh, Sajib’s
younger brother, and Sajib’s mother Jaheda Begum.
State-appointed
lawyer Hafizur Rahman Khan stood for the defense in the High...