May
22, 2000
UNB
News
Dhaka,
Bangladesh – A metropolitan sessions judge court today
awarded death penalty to a magistrate for killing a lady
magistrate in 1993.
Additional
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Rishikesh Shaha found guilty and
handed down the death sentence to Liaquat Ali Khan, a
magistrate of Sherpur in absentia, for killing his colleague
Shahida Chowdhury who was a magistrate in Mymensingh.
According
to the prosecution, in October 1993, Shahida Chowdhury, an
expectant mother, was staying in her sister-in-law’s house
at Kurmitola in Dhaka for delivery. Liaquat visited Shahida in
that house on October 8 and insisted on her going with him. On
refusal he stabbed her on the neck and shoulder.
Wounded
Shahida was rushed to the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka
where she died the following day.
In
her statement from the deathbed Shahida had said Liaquat
killed her.
Soon
Liaquat was arrested but he secured bail from the court. Since
then he remained a fugitive.
