Four to die for raping 10-yr-old girl
A Narayanganj court yesterday handed death penalty to four people for raping a ten-year-old girl in 2003.
The convicts are Sumon, Alamin, Abul and Shahadat -- all residets of Alirtek area in Narayanganj Sadar upazila. They are all absconding.
Judge Md Juel Rana of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal handed down the death penalty to them, fifteen years after the incident.
On January 13, 2003 the ten-year-old girl went missing, after the four culprits called her outside, our correspondent reports quoting Public Prosecutor Rakib Uddin of the Tribunal.
The next day, her body was recovered from a field adjacent to her house, the lawyer said.
The victim's brother filed a case with Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in this regard, and the culprits went into hiding.
However, the victim's family is happy with the decision of the court, the PP added.
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