BANGLADESH. ARMY OFFICER, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
February 28, 2007: a special court in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, sentenced three people, including an army captain, to death for murder. The court found Khandaker Mohammed Elahi Biplob, Captain Khandaker Iftekher Elahi Shanto and Hossain Kabir Parvez chopped Iffat Bin Mahmud to death and then ran their car over his body to cover up the murder.
Iffat married off his younger sister to Captain Shanto. After an altercation, Iffat took his sister from Shanto, who retaliated by murdering Iffat with the other two accused. (Sources: Gulf Times, 01/03/2007)
|