DHAKA, June 19, 2023 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today convicted a woman and her paramour and sentenced them to death in a case lodged over the killing of her husband and daughter in capital's Badda area in 2017.

The two death-row-convicts are Arjina Begum and Shahin Mollik.

Judge Mosammat Bilkis Akhter of Dhaka Second Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court pronounced the judgment in presence of the two convicts. The court also sentenced another convict Koyaj Ali to life imprisonment and fined him Tk 50,000 in absentia.

According to the case documents, Arjina and her husband Jamil used to live in a flat in Badda area with their only daughter Nusrat, 9. Shahin Mollik took one room of their flat on sub-let. At one stage, Arjina and Shahin got involved in an illicit relationship and decided to kill Jamil and later start a new family.

On November 2, 2017, as per their planning, Shahin with the help of his friend Koyaj, killed Jamil in his flat. As Nusrat saw the killing, they killed her as well.