<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A court in Cumilla has sentenced three people to death for the murder of a woman in 2016.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Cumilla district and sessions judge Md Helal Uddin handed down the punishment to the trio on Tuesday morning. However, another accused in the case was acquitted "for lack of evidence".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The death row convicts are Simon and Rakib of the Shikirgaon area of the Meghna upazila, and Tasir of the Manikarchar area of the upazila. Of them, Tasir was tried in absentia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The acquitted person, Titu, belongs to the same area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the prosecution, the woman went missing on June 20, 2016. Four days later, police had recovered her semi-decomposed body from a paddy field near her house.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On June 25, the woman's husband lodged a complaint against unidentified people at the Meghna police station. The cops later registered a murder case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Subsequently, the investigating officer in the case submitted a chargesheet against the four people. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>