Barisal Correspondent :
A tribunal here on Thursday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a schoolgirl after rape in 2011.
The convicts-Shaheen alias Harun Choukidar, 25, son of late Ratan Choukidar, and Rashed Hawladar alias Hossain Ali, 23, son of Hashem Ali of Koylaghat are in the district town-were also fined Tk50,000 each, in default, to suffer five years more in prison.
Barisal Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Sheikh Abu Taher pronounced the verdict.
Besides, the tribunal also sentenced the duo 14 years’ imprisonment under a separate section for abducting the girl and fined them Tk20,000 each, in default of which, they will have to serve three years more jail.
According to the prosecution, Shaheen and Ali, workers of a sweetmeat shop at Bazar Road in the city, used to tease the victim, a class X student of a local school.
Informed, her father brought the matter to the notice of the families of the accused.
Angered at this, Shaheen and Ali picked up the girl and took her to the rented house of Shaheen where they violated her on August 10, 2011.
A tribunal here on Thursday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a schoolgirl after rape in 2011.
The convicts-Shaheen alias Harun Choukidar, 25, son of late Ratan Choukidar, and Rashed Hawladar alias Hossain Ali, 23, son of Hashem Ali of Koylaghat are in the district town-were also fined Tk50,000 each, in default, to suffer five years more in prison.
Barisal Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Sheikh Abu Taher pronounced the verdict.
Besides, the tribunal also sentenced the duo 14 years’ imprisonment under a separate section for abducting the girl and fined them Tk20,000 each, in default of which, they will have to serve three years more jail.
According to the prosecution, Shaheen and Ali, workers of a sweetmeat shop at Bazar Road in the city, used to tease the victim, a class X student of a local school.
Informed, her father brought the matter to the notice of the families of the accused.
Angered at this, Shaheen and Ali picked up the girl and took her to the rented house of Shaheen where they violated her on August 10, 2011.
