Munir Hussain, a wealthy industrialist, killed his wife of four months, Sharmin Rima, on the night of 8/9 April 1989.
It was the culmination of a long-running affair with his mistress Hosne Ara Khuku,[1] a middle-aged married woman.
[3] Munir killed Sharmin along the Chittagong-Dhaka highway, and dumped her body near Mijmizi village in Narayanganj District.
[4] The murder investigation and the subsequent trial was widely covered in the press, with every new revelation generating dramatic headlines over the course of several months.
Two years later, in July 1992, an appellate court overturned Khuku's sentence and acquitted her of all charges.