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Student sentenced to death for couple murder
Our Correspondent
Published :Monday, 27 June, 2016,  Time : 12:00 AM  View Count : 10
MYMENSINGH, June 26: A district court on Sunday sentenced a student to death for killing a retired couple in Mymensingh town in 2014.
The court also fiend Tk 20,000, in default to suffer six more months in prison, court sources said.
The convict is Golam Mustafa Mithu, 25, son of Abu Zafar hailing from Chhoykhada in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenidah and fifth year student of Fashion Design at Mymensingh town's Rumdo Institute of Modern Technology.
The couple, Abdul Haque, 70, a retired post-master and his wife Rayhatunnessa, 65, retired headmaster of Akua Government Primary School who hailed from village Dhamail in Gafargoan upazila of Mymensingh and had been living in their three-storied building, and their two sons stay in Dhaka.
They were taking preparations to perform Hajj that year, police said quoting family sources.
The case story said, college student Mithu chopped a retired couple to death at their Akua Garurkhuar residence of Mymensingh town on July 12, 2014 night.
 Mithu got acquainted with the couple through his sister, who used to be a tenant there four years ago, police said.
On several occasions, he demanded Tk 50,000 in loan from the couple to pay his college fees and other expenses, police said.
On July 12 night, Mithu went to the couple's house, where they used to live alone, around 10 pm and asked for the money again. Refused, he started slashing Rayhatunnessa with a machete in her chest and neck, police said. When Abdul Haque came to her rescue from the adjacent room, Mithu attacked him with the machete.












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