, Feb. 24 -- A Habiganj court on Monday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman in 2014.

Habiganj Additional District and Session Judge AKM Kamal Uddin handed down the punishment.

The condemned convicts are-Al Amin of Madanpur village, Sadar Alki, of Manayanagar, Taj Uddin, of Uttampur and Mahiuddin Ahmed alias Sufi Mia, a Bangladeshi expatriate in the UK. All of them were tried in absentia.

The court also fined the convicts Tk 50,000 each and acquitted three more accused in the case as allegations brought against them could not be proved.

According to the prosecution, police recovered the hanging body of Josna Begum, a resident of Uchail Charinao village in Sadar upazila near the boundary wall of the hou...