Dhaka, March 10 -- A Chattogram court has sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city's Sadarghat area.

Chattogram Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Begum Sirajam Munira delivered the verdict in the case on Sunday.

The death row convicts have been identified as Md Rubel, 27, and Md Abbas, 30. Rubel is absconding, but Abbas was present in court to hear the verdict and was sent to jail afterwards.

Rubel lived in the Karnaphuli Colony in Chattoram's Abhimitra Ghat area, while Abbas lived in the Belal Colony area of the Sadarghat Thana.

"The court sentenced the two suspects to death under Section 302 of the Penal Code. Both of the convicts have also been fined Tk 20,000," said the ...