A court has sentenced Rezaul Karim Reza to death in a case for killing his wife, Dr Jannatul Naim Siddika, after taking her to a residential hotel in Dhaka's Kalabagan. According to the case dossier, Reza and Jannatul met through social media in 2019. Since they eloped in secret from their families, they lived at different residential hotels at different times as husband and wife. On Aug 12, 2022, Reza took Jannatul to a residential hotel in Panthapath on the pretext of celebrating her birthday. Jannatul's father Shafiqul Alam filed a murder case with Kalabagan Police Station over the killing.
