A young man was sentenced to death by a Narayanganj court in a case filed in connection with the murder of five members of a family centring extramarital affair at Baburail in Narayanganj city on January 15 in 2016.
The convicted young man was Mahfuzur Rahman. In addition to this, the court also fined him Tk 5,000.
After inquiring all records and 23 witnesses, district and sessions judge Hosne Ara Akhter handed down the verdict on Monday.
According to prosecution, Taslima Begum, 35, wife of Shafiqul Islam, a private car driver in capital Dhaka, their children Sumaiya, 5, Shantu, 10, Taslima's brother Morshedul, 22, and Lamia, 25, who was married to Shafiqul's brother Sharif, the five members of the family were found dead in their house of the area on January 16.