Rakib murder: HC verdict on appeals April 4

The High Court will deliver verdict on April 4 on the death reference and appeals in the sensational Rakib murder case in Khulna.

The High Court bench of Justice Zahangir Hossain and Md Zahangir Hossain today set the date after concluding hearing for 11 days.

The court on January 10 started hearing on the death reference and appeals in the killing case.

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Earlier on November 8, 2015, Khulna Metropolitan Magistrate Court handed down death penalty to Omar Sharif and Mintu Khan to death for killing Rakib.

The convicts then filed two separate appeals with the HC challenging their conviction and sentences handed down by the trial court.

On August 3, 2015, Rakib's former employer Omar Sharif and his accomplice and uncle Mintu Khan stripped the boy naked, inserted a high-pressure air pump nozzle into his rectum and filled the abdomen with air, as a punishment for changing workplace. Rakib's intestines tore apart and lungs burst as air filled the abdomen, which left him dead. The killing of the 13-year-old sparked outrage all over the country then.