DHAKA,  – A Dhaka court today set January 17 to pronounce judgement in a case lodged over murder of a woman and her son in capital’s Kakrail area in 2017.

Dhaka 3rd Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Robiul Islam passed the order as both the prosecution and the defence concluded their parts of closing arguments in the case.

Shamsunnahar, 45, and her son Shaon were slaughtered in their 79/A Anjuman Mofidul Islam Road house in Kakrail on November 1, 2017.

Shamsunnahar’s brother Ashraf Ali filed the case on November 2, 2017, against her husband Abdul Karim, a wholesale spice trader based in Shyambazar, his second wife Sharmin Mukta, Mukta’s brother Jonny and others.

Ramna Police Station inspector (investigation) Ali Hossain on July 16, 2018, filed charge sheet against Karim, Mukta and Jonny.

Dhaka 3rd Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Robiul Islam on January 31, 2019, framed charges against the accused and examined 17 out of 22 prosecution witnesses on different hearing dates.