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Khadiza murder attempt case verdict March 8

A Sylhet court fixed March 8 for delivering the verdict in a case filed over an attempt to murder of Sylhet college student Khadiza Begum Nargis, said Public Prosecutor Advocate Mafur Ali.Metropolitan Session Judge of the district Akbar Hossain Mridha fixed the date on completion of hearing arguments from both the prosecution and defence on Sunday afternoon.On March 1, the case was transferred to the session judge court from the chief metropolitan magistrate court of the district.On October 3, 2016, Sylhet Government Women’s College student Khadiza was brutally hacked by Badrul Alam, a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and senior assistant secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League unit at the institute.Badrul Alam confessed to hacking Khadiza in his statement he made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) on October 5, 2016.