5 to die for killing minor girl after abduction
A Joypurhat court yesterday sentenced five people to death for killing a minor girl after her abduction around five years ago.
The convicts are: Uttam Kumar Sarkar, 29, Biresh Chandra Barman, 38, Santosh Kumar Sarkar, 28, Mostafizur Rahman, 38, and Obaidul Islam, 25 -- all from Rashidpur village in the district's Panchbibi upazila.
Md Rustom Ali, judge of Joypurhat Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal, delivered the verdict.
According to the prosecution, Radha Rani, two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Poresh Chandra of Rashidpur village, went missing. She was last seen playing near her home on December 22, 2015.
Police recovered her body from a pond in the village on December 25 that year.
The victim's father then filed a case with Panchbibi Police Station accusing five people of killing his daughter after abduction.
During interrogation, they confessed that they abducted the girl for ransom. They murdered her and dumped her body in the pond after her father failed to pay the money.
After examination of the evidence and witnesses' statements, the court delivered the verdict yesterday, said Nripendranath Roy, public prosecutor of the court.
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