a 45 year old man, Sonahar Ali, a resident of Karimganj district, was

a 45 year old man, Sonahar Ali, a resident of Karimganj district, was convicted and sentenced to death by the additional district and sessions court under Section 302 IPC in a 1999 multiple murder case. Judge Bishnu Debnath sentenced him to death in the south Assam district on the Indo-Bangladesh border. The case is related to the planned and cold-blooded serial murder of nine people- three men, 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 burnt to death Kuti Mea, a farmer, his wife Asia Begum and five of their daughters by setting their house on fire.