UNB, Narsingdi :
A tribunal here on Sunday convicted five youths and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for violating a teenage girl last year.
The lifers are Shah Alam, 18, son of Abdur Razzak, Sabuj, 18, son of Alam, Ramzan, 18, son of Rafique, Makaram alias Mobarok, 18, son of Mohiuddin of Daspara village and
Swapon, 18, son of Afaj Uddin of Hatuvanga village in Raipura upazila. The court also fined them Tk one lakh each, in default, to suffer one year more rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, the 14 year old girl was gang-raped by the convicts when she went to the house of Shah Alam for cooking food on January 19, 2014.
Victim’s father filed a case against five people with Sadar Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on the following day.
Police arrested the five youths and all of them made confessional statements before the court later. Mahbub, Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station submitted a chargesheet against them on June 26, 2014. After examining the records and six witnesses, Narsingdi Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Shamim Ahmed handed down the verdict.
A tribunal here on Sunday convicted five youths and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for violating a teenage girl last year.
The lifers are Shah Alam, 18, son of Abdur Razzak, Sabuj, 18, son of Alam, Ramzan, 18, son of Rafique, Makaram alias Mobarok, 18, son of Mohiuddin of Daspara village and
Swapon, 18, son of Afaj Uddin of Hatuvanga village in Raipura upazila. The court also fined them Tk one lakh each, in default, to suffer one year more rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, the 14 year old girl was gang-raped by the convicts when she went to the house of Shah Alam for cooking food on January 19, 2014.
Victim’s father filed a case against five people with Sadar Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on the following day.
Police arrested the five youths and all of them made confessional statements before the court later. Mahbub, Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station submitted a chargesheet against them on June 26, 2014. After examining the records and six witnesses, Narsingdi Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Shamim Ahmed handed down the verdict.
