Laxmipur Correspondent :
A court in Laxmipur has given death sentence to 10 people for raping and killing a school girl in Sadar upazila in 2012.
The condemned convicts are Manik Hossain, Saddam Hossain, Hiron, Rashedul Islam, Sumon, Sohel, Nur Alam, Nur Nabi, Choukidar Hedayetullah and Anwar Hossain. The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each.
Of them; Manik, Saddam, Sumon, Sohel and Rashedul were tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, a gang of robbers, numbering 25-30, swooped on the house of Manik Laxman at Basudouhita village under Chandraganj union in Sadar upazila on July 18, 2012 and looted valuables worth Tk five lakh after keeping the house inmates hostage at gunpoint.
The bandits also strangulated Manik’s daughter Sima Rani Debnath, then a Class-VII student of Pratapganj High School, after violating her.
Victim’s grandfather Krishna Das filed a case the following day in this regard.
Police submitted charge-sheet against 24 accused on March 25, 2013.
After examining the records and witnesses, Session’s Judge Manjurul Basid handed down the verdict acquitting 14 other accused as allegations brought against them were not proved.
A court in Laxmipur has given death sentence to 10 people for raping and killing a school girl in Sadar upazila in 2012.
The condemned convicts are Manik Hossain, Saddam Hossain, Hiron, Rashedul Islam, Sumon, Sohel, Nur Alam, Nur Nabi, Choukidar Hedayetullah and Anwar Hossain. The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each.
Of them; Manik, Saddam, Sumon, Sohel and Rashedul were tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, a gang of robbers, numbering 25-30, swooped on the house of Manik Laxman at Basudouhita village under Chandraganj union in Sadar upazila on July 18, 2012 and looted valuables worth Tk five lakh after keeping the house inmates hostage at gunpoint.
The bandits also strangulated Manik’s daughter Sima Rani Debnath, then a Class-VII student of Pratapganj High School, after violating her.
Victim’s grandfather Krishna Das filed a case the following day in this regard.
Police submitted charge-sheet against 24 accused on March 25, 2013.
After examining the records and witnesses, Session’s Judge Manjurul Basid handed down the verdict acquitting 14 other accused as allegations brought against them were not proved.
