Man gets life for raping 5-yr-old
A tribunal yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a five-year-old minor girl in Dakhshin Keraniganj.
The court also fined convict Jalal Uddin, a local tea-stall owner, Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer three more months in jail.
According to the prosecution, Jalal picked up the girl and took her to his house while she was playing in front of his tea stall on July 5, 2015.
Later, Jalal raped the girl.
After a frantic search, the girl's mother found the girl coming out of the house crying.
Later, the girl informed her mother about the incident.
The girl's mother filed a rape case with Keraniganj Police Station. Police pressed charges on August 18 of the same year.
After examining all the records and six witnesses among the 11, Judge Jesmin Ara Begum of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1, handed down the verdict.
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