A court in Chattogram sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing a housewife in Kotwali police station area of the city in 2019.
Chattogram Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Sirajam Munira handed down the order on Tuesday.
The convict is Md Sohel, 40, hailed from Chandnaish upazila in Chattogram district.
The court also fined him Tk 50,000, in default, he will have to suffer six months more in jail.
In another section, the court sentenced him to 10 years of jail as well as fined Tk 5,000, in default, three months more jail.
Abdur Rashid, public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the matter.
According to the prosecution, Sohel stabbed a trader's wife to death in Korbaniganj Toilpatti Road area on April 30, 2019, as she barred him from committing robbery in the house.
He also hurt her son with the knife strike and looted valuables from the house.
A case was filed by the victim's husband Abul Kashem with Kotwali Police Station accusing Sohel.
Police then submitted a charge-sheet against him to the court on July 20 after an investigation.
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