Dhaka, Feb. 24 -- Four people have been sentenced to death on the charge of attempting to frame another person after killing a woman in Habiganj's Nabiganj Upazila in 2014.

Habiganj Additional District and Sessions Judge AKM Kamal Uddin delivered the verdict in the absence of the four convicts, said the court's Office Assistant Cum Computer Operator Tapan Singh.

The death row convicts are Al Amin, Chhadar Ali, Taj Uddin, and UK expatriate Mohiuddin Ahmed alias Sufi Miah.

They have also been fined Tk 50,000 each.

The case dossier shows on Dec 10, 2014, the body of Habiganj Sadar Upazila resident Jyotsna Begum was found hanging near the boundary wall of former Nabiganj municipality commissioner and Jubo League leader Mizanur Rahman's ho...