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The prosecution case, in a nutshell, is that the applicant (A-2), who is the wife of the deceased, had conspired with accused Khandakar Saifur Rahman (A-1) to kill her husband by engaging contract killers. In furtherance of such conspiracy, the husband of the applicant was killed in an incident which took place late in the evening of 07.07.2021. The prosecution case is entirely based on circumstantial evidence. A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that the learned trial court had heavily relied upon the Call Details Report (CDR) of both the accused persons and the contract killers around the time of the incident to come to the conclusion that the incident was the outcome of criminal conspiracy. According to the prosecution, the applicant Lal Bhanu was maintaining an illicit relationship with the A-1, Khandakar Saifur Rahman and in order to continue with their illicit affair, the deceased was Page No.# 3/4 eliminated by hiring contract killer. It appears that one of the contract killers was killed in an encounter with the police and the other is absconding.