Husband gets life imprisonment for killing wife

A local court of Kailashahar under Unakoti district on Monday pronounced life imprisonment to a husband for killing his wife.

Giving details, public prosecutor and government lawyer of the Kailashahar court, Sunirmil Deb, said that Ramiz Ali (35), a resident of Khaorabil Gram Panchayat under Irani Police Station of Kailashahar, married Roshna Begum (27) daughter of Nesharun Bibi of Dhaliakandi village in Kailashahar in May 2019. Since the marriage, Ramiz had been torturing Roshna Begum physically and mentally for fifteen years. Nine months after the marriage, on the night of January 6, 2020, Ramiz Ali attacked her head with a sharp weapon at his own house in Khaorabil village and killed Roshna Begum on the spot.

The next day of the brutal incident, Roshna Begum's mother Nesharun Bibi saw her daughter's body lying on the floor in a pool of blood inside the house.

Nesharun Bibi immediately informed the Irani police station and upon receiving the news, the Irani police station reached the spot and took Roshna Begum's body to the Unakoti district hospital.

Later, on January 7, 2020, Nesharun Bibi filed a case against Ramiz Ali and police immediately arrested him under sections 498, 302 IPC. After the incident, Ramiz Ali fled from his own house, but three days after the incident, the investigating officer of the case, Aparna Debnath, arrested Ramiz Ali.

The investigating officer of the case, Aparna Debnath, submitted the charge sheet of the case to the court on May 31, 2020. During the trial twenty-two people testified against Ramiz Ali and Unakoti District Court Judge Sudipta Chowdhury convicted Ramiz Ali on January 18  and announced the sentence on Monday. The judge sentenced Ramiz Ali to three years in prison under Section 498 A and a fine of Rs. 50,000 in default of which he will have to serve nine months in prison. Moreover, Ramiz Ali was sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 302 IPC and a fine of Rs. 50,000, in default of which he will have to serve nine months in prison, said lawyer Sunirmil Deb.