A Dinajpur court yesterday sentenced the lone accused in the much-talked-about Ghoraghat UNO hammer attack case to 13 years imprisonment.
The accused, Md Rabiul Islam, 30, will also have to pay a Tk 13,000 fine, in default of which he will have to spend another nine months in jail.
Rabiul was a former employee of Dinajpur Deputy Commissioner and gardener of the Ghoraghat upazila parishad office.
According to police, Rabiul attacked Wahida because he lost his job while she was in charge.
Sadia Sultana, judge of the Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court-3 in Dinajpur, delivered the verdict in a packed courtroom, where the accused was also present.
According to the prosecution, Wahida Khanam, 34, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Ghoraghat, was critically injured in a brutal hammer attack at her official residence at the upazila parishad complex on the night of September 2, 2020.
Her father, who was there at the time, was also injured in the attack, while her three-year-old son was unhurt.
Police said the attacker, who was later identified as Rabiul, entered the house through a gap in a ventilator, and attacked Wahida with a hammer.
She suffered severe head injuries.
On information, police and the local administration rescued and rushed her to the upazila health complex. The next day, she was shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. In the afternoon, she was flown to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air…
