Death sentence for killer, Sonahar Ali of Karimganj

Silchar, June 5: A 45-year-old killer, Sonahar Ali, a resident of Karimganj district, was yesterday convicted and sentenced to death by the additional district and sessions court under Section 302 IPC in a 1999 multiple murder case.

This was the first time that the district and sessions judge, Bishnu Debnath, had sentenced to death someone in the south Assam district on the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The case is related to the planned and cold-blooded serial murder of nine persons — three grown-up males, one woman and five adolescent girls, all siblings— at Betubari village under Ratabari block in the district on December 15, 1999.

According to the 75-page verdict, the accused had burnt to death one Kuti Mea, a farmer, his wife Asia Begum and five of their daughters by setting their house on fire. Source: telegraph india