A court in Tangail has given a son the highest punishment, death, for killing his mother. Senior Sessions Judge Md Hafizur Rahman of Tangail handed down the sentence on Sunday (15 November) afternoon.
The convict is Yunus Mondal, 25, son of the late Siraj Uddin of Mashajan village, Mirzapur upazila, Tangail.
Advocate Md Shafiqul Islam Ripon, public prosecutor (PP) of the Tangail sessions court, said Yunus Mondal lived at the family home in the village with his mother, Fulmala, and his elder brother, Sheikh Farid, who has a disability. On the afternoon of 25 July 2025 he argued with his mother over household work.
At one point Yunus seized his mother by the throat, choked her and threw her to the ground. He then struck Fulmala on the head five to seven times with a bamboo stick, and she died on the spot.
On being informed, police recovered the body and sent it to the morgue for a post-mortem. The next day, 26 July, Fulmala’s daughter Selina Begum filed a case at Mirzapur police station, and police arrested Yunus the same day. Yunus later confessed to killing his mother in a statement to a magistrate under section 164.
At the end of the trial the court sentenced Yunus Mondal to death, the highest punishment, and fined him Tk 1 lakh. After the verdict he was taken to Tangail district jail.
The defence counsel was Advocate AKM Shamimul Akhtar (Shamim).
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