One gets life for child rape
A court here yesterday sentenced a youth to life imprisonment for raping a four-year-old girl in 2009.
District and Sessions Judge Ratneshwar Bhattacharya pronounced the verdict in presence of the convict. The court also fined him Tk 50,000.
The convict is Mohamed Mustafa, 38, of Madhya Boilkhali village in Dighinala upazila of the district.
According to the case statement, the girl went to take bath with her friends in the Maine river near the village on March 8 in 2009. The girl was returning home when Mostafa took her to a field nearby and raped her.
The girl told her mother about the incident. Her neighbours caught Mustafa and handed him over to the police. The girl identified Mostafa.
Father of the girl filed a case with Dighinala Police Station the same day, accusing Mostafa.
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