5 indicted for murder of Canada-based woman, trial begins

A Dhaka tribunal on Wednesday framed charges against five people, including the victim’s husband, in a case over the murder and burial of a Canada-based expatriate woman in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area in 2023.

Judge Mohammad Sarwar Alam of the Dhaka Tribunal for the Prevention of Offences Against Public Security rejected the discharge petitions and ordered the trial to begin. The court fixed December 14 for recording witness testimonies.

The accused are the victim Afroza’s husband Ashraful, father-in-law Shamsuddin Ahmed, brother-in-law Sajib Alam, Sajib’s wife Tahmina Bashar and aunt-in-law lawyer Panna Chowdhury.