Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court has indicted the lone accused in a case filed over rape and murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in the city’s Wari area last year previous year.
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Judge Kazi Abdul Hannan framed the charges against accused Harun ur Rashid on Thursday.
The court also fixed January 8 for recording the statements of the witnesses.
A Dhaka court has indicted the lone accused in a case filed over rape and murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in the city’s Wari area last year previous year.
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Judge Kazi Abdul Hannan framed the charges against accused Harun ur Rashid on Thursday.
The court also fixed January 8 for recording the statements of the witnesses.
Harun, who was arrested following the incident, confessed that he had killed the schoolgirl after raping her so that she cannot disclose his identity.
On July 5 last year, Samia Afrin Saima, a nursery student of Silverdale Preparatory and Girls’ High School, was raped and murdered by Harun ur Rashid on the seventh floor of their building in Wari.
Later, family members found the body of the victim in a flat of the building and filed a murder case against the rapist.
