CHATTOGRAM, July 14, 2025 (BSS) - A Chattogram court today sentenced three people to death for killing a man over an extramarital affair.

Chattogram Additional District and Sessions Judge HM Shafiqul Islam handed down the verdict against Rima Akter, Shahadat Hossain Quayum, and Abdul Quayum.

As the charge was proven beyond doubt, the court sentenced all three to death and fined each Tk 50,000.

According to the prosecution, Rima Akhter, with the help of Shahadat and Abdul Quayum, murdered her husband Joynal Abedin-also known as Kala Mia-over her extramarital affair on April 9, 2021. 

They dumped his body in a pond from where police recovered the body the following day.

Following the incident, the victim's brother Mohiuddin filed a murder case with Sitakunda police station.