A court in Dhaka sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her five-year-old son Samiul Azim Wafi murder.

Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of the Dhaka Special Judge Court 4 passed the order on Sunday (December 20).

The death-row convicts are- Ayesha Humayra Esha and her lover Shamsuzzaman Arif alias Bakku, 44. Both of them are absconding.

The court also fined them Tk5000.

According to the case statement, on June 23, 2010, Samiul, a student of playgroup of Green-Wood International School in Nabboddya Housing under Adabor Police Station, was killed by his mother Esha and her lover Shamsuzzaman.