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RANGPUR, Oct 28, 2025 (BSS) - A court has sentenced Jamil Mia to death for killing his mother Jamila Begum more than three years ago in Najirdaho village of Kawnia upazila in Rangpur district. 
 
At the same time, the convict has also been fined Taka 20,000. 
 
Senior District and Sessions Judge of Rangpur Fazle Khoda Md Nazir gave the verdict in the courtroom on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of the accused. 
 
The convict Jamil is the son of Abdur Razzaque of the same village. 
 
According to the prosecution, Jamil Mia's wife Kakoli Khatun moved to her father's house after a disagreement with her mother-in-law Jamila Begum. Jamil was very angry with his mother. 
 
At one point, on the night of August 19, 2022, after eating, Jamil Mia and his mother Jamila Khatun fell asleep in separate beds in the same room. 
 
Taking this opportunity, around 1 am, Jamil Mia strangled his mother to death by pressing her nose and mouth with a pillow and buried her body in a hole in the living room floor. 
 
Later, on August 24, 2022, police from Kawnia police station went there, dug under the bed in the living room and found Jamila's dead body. 
 
Later, Md Shamsul Haque, brother of the deceased Jamila Begum, filed a murder case with the Kawnia police station. 
 
After examining 12 witnesses in the case, the judge found the accused son guilty beyond doubt and gave this verdict.