Man gets life term in Feni rape case
A Feni court today sentenced a person to life term and four others to 14 years imprisonment for raping a school girl in 2013.
The court also fined Abu Bakar Siddique, who was awarded life term jail, Tk five lakh while the rest four convicts--Jahangir Alam, Mesbah Uddin Palash, Bayozid Faysal and Riad Hossain --were fined Tk one lakh each.
The district Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal’s Judge Mamunur Rashid came up with the order.
On May 25, 2013, the convicted persons abducted a class-seven girl from Char Gonesh village of Sonagazi upazila in the district.
Later, they took the girl at a house in Bandarban area and raped her. Three days into the abduction, police rescued the girl from the house in the hilly area.
On July 12 in the same year, police submitted a charge sheet accusing 10 persons in connection with the incident.
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