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The prosecution case, in a nutshell, is that the applicant (A-1) had conspired with accused Lal Bhanu (A-2), who is the wife of the deceased, to kill her husband by engaging contract killers. In furtherance of such conspiracy, the husband of A-2 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 Khandakar Saifur Rahman was maintaining an illicit relationship with Lal Bhanu (A-2) and in order to continue with their illicit affair, the deceased was eliminated by hiring contract killer. It appears that one of the contract killers was killed in an Page No.# 3/4 encounter with the police and the other is absconding.