<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today acquitted two people convicted and sentenced to death in a case lodged over murder of one Miliara Khatun and her daughter Pervin in Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district in 2006.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The apex court also commuted death sentence of another convict to life imprisonment.</div><div><br></div><div>"Criminal Appeal No-47 of 2015 with Criminal Appeal No-15 of 2015 are allowed and Jail Appeal No-24 of 2014 is dismissed with modification of sentence," a three-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique said in its order.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Helal Uddin moved the appeals before the court, while Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ahmed stood for the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Miliara Khatun and her daughter Pervin were brutally murdered on October 10, 2006. A lower court concerned convicted and sentenced three accused Esmail Hossain Babu, Sonadi and Torikul Islam to death in 2008.</div><div><br></div><div>The High Court after holding hearing on the appeals of the convicts and death reference, upheld their death sentence. The three convicts later appealed against the High Court judgment.</div><div><br></div><div>The Appellate Division today came up with its judgment after holding hearing on the appeals. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>