Shawdesh Desk:

A special tribunal in Dhaka has sentenced two women to death in a case lodged over the murder of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Pervin.

Judge Abu Jafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka 1st Speedy Trial Tribunal announced the verdict on Sunday in presence of the accused.

The death row conicts are Ruma alias Reshma and Rikta Akter alias Swapna, two housemaids of Mahfuza Chowdhury Pervin. Police on February 10, 2019, police recovered the body of Pervin from her Sukanya Tower flat at Elephant Road in the capital.

Her husband Ismat Kader Gama filed a murder case with New Market Police Station against three, two housemaids Ruma alias Reshma and Rikta Akter alias Swapna and Runu Begum, who brought the first two to that home.

Police later managed to arrest all the three accused, of which Reshma and Swapna confessed killing Pervin.

Investigation officer and sub-inspector of New Market Police Station on July 21 filed charge-sheet against Reshma and Swapna, dropping name of Runu Begum, as police did not find her involvement in the crime.

The court on February 9, 2020, framed charges against the two accused.