Online Desk: A court in Joypurhat on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife and son at Khetlal upazila in the district in 2005. The court also fined him Tk 10,000.

Joypurhat Additional Sessions Judge Abbas Uddin handed down the verdict.  The condemned convict was Rezaul Karim alias Bhadu, a resident of Hapania village of the upazila.

Advocate Nripendranath Mondal, public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the matter. According to the case statement, Rezaul Karim stabbed his wife Anguri Begum, 45, and son Hitler, 5, to death with a sharp weapon and fled.

Mozahar Ali, brother of the victim Anguri Begum, filed a case with Kshetlar Police Station on the same day as the plaintiff in the incident. After investigation, police submitted a charge-sheet against the accused to the court on August 9, 2005. The court delivered the verdict after taking depositions of the witnesses.