A rapist was awarded life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) by a court here yesterday.
Woman and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Judge Md Nazir Ahmed also fined the convict Tk 50,000, in default of which he will have to suffer one year more RI for raping a baby girl of eight years at Sreerampur village.
The convict is identified as Mijanur Rahman, 20, son of Shahidul Islam of the same village at Magura Sadar upazila.
The prosecution in brief: While the girl was passing the area, Mijan dragged her to a lonely room of their house and raped her in the evening of January 16, 2007.
The victim's father Ejajul Islam filed a case with Sadar Police Station on the same night.
The judge after examining all the records and witnesses gave the verdict.