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Man sentenced to death for killing mother

A court has sentenced a man to death for killing his mother at Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh. 

Mymensingh District and Sessions Judge Md Helal Uddin passed the order on Monday. 

The death-row convict is Md Mostofa, son of late Abdul Jabbar Miah of Jamirdia Dubuliapara in the upazila.

The court also fined him Tk 10 thousand. 

Kabir Uddin bhuiyan, the Public Prosecutor of the court, confirmed the matter to Jago News. 

On 13 December in 2018, Mostofa hacked his mother Morium Begum to death over a land dispute. Later his brother Shah Jalal filed a case accusing five people including him. 

On 12 February in 2019, police filed a charge sheet to the court.