A court in Patuakhali on Wednesday sentenced notorious gang leader Mokim Gazi to life imprisonment for killing a UP chairman.
   He was also fined Tk 10,000,in default, to suffer R.I. for one year more. The court acquitted 19 other people involved in the case. The prosecution said Mokim Gazi murdered Nurul huq Sikder, a retired police inspector and chairman of Chootobeghai Union Parishad under Patuakhali sadar upazila in April, 1989.
    Mizanur Rahman, nephew of Nurul Huq, lodged a murder case against Mokim and 23 others in connection with the murder.
   The police after investigation submitted charge sheet against 22 people including Mokim on June 1,1990.
   Two accused and four witnesses in the case died during the long trial that took 17 years for completion.
   ABM Sajedur Rahman, judge of the Patuakhali district special tribunal, delivered the judgement after examining 17 witnesses and evidences and hearing arguments of the both sides.
   Earlier Mokim was jailed for 115 years in four other cases. He earned notoriety for escaping from the Dhaka Cental Jail twice.

Two women were killed in separate incidents in Gazipur and Narsingdi on Tuesday and Wednesday.
   According to a report from our Gazipur correspondent, a widow was killed at village Gazipur under Sripur upazila in a clash over the possession of a disputed land on Wednesday evening. Five persons were also injured in the clash. The dead was identified as Karimonnesa, 55, wife of late Ramzan Ali.
   The injured are Shapla, 20, Nipa, 14, Halima, 34, Selina, 30 and Fatema, 33.
   According to villagers, a band of 14 to 15 people came to village Gazipur at 6:pm on Wednesday in 7/8 motor motor cycles, occupied a disputed land and put up signboard on the land.
   An altercation ensued when Karimonnesa and the members of her family tried to resist the invaders. At one stage of altercation, the invaders attacked Karimonnesa with sharp weapons resulting in her death on the spot.
   Five other members of Karimonnesa’s family were also injured in the attack. The death of the widow created a sensation in the area. The angry villagers later chased the attackers and set fire to two motor cycles. The police rushed to the sport and brought the situation under control.
   Our Narsingdi correspondent adds: a middle-aged housewife was killed after rape at Village Khainkut under Shibpur upazila on the night of June 6.
   Local and the police sources said the victim went out her house at night to respond to the call of nature. Five to six miscreants kidnapped her as soon as she came out of her house, took her to a nearby paddy field and rapped her one by one. Later they strangled her and threw the body into a ditch.
   The police recovered the body next day and sent it to sadar hospital morgue for post mortem examination.
   A case was filed with the Shibpur thana.