A Chittagong court on Thursday awarded life term imprisonment to four persons in a case filed for raping a mother and her step-daughter in Satkania Upazila of the district.
The judge of Women Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Mohammad Rafiqul Islam passed the judgment convicting Korban Ali, Ridowan Rahman, Abdur Rahim and Rubel Chowdhury, all hailed from Keochia village under Satkania Upazila of the district.
The tribunal also fined them Tk one lakh each and sent the charges framed against another accused to Children Court as the accused was 16 years old.
The prosecution story is, in brief, that five rogues entered the house of a woman and gang-raped her and her step-daughter in Keochia village under Satkania Upazila of the district on June 14 in 2014, court sources said. Later the next day, the woman filed a case against five persons with Satkania thana in this connection.
Police submitted chargesheets against the five accused on December 12 in 2014 while the court framed charges against four of them on April 9 in 2015. The court also ordered to transfer the trial of the other accused to the Children Court as he was 16 years old. The court today after examining seven prosecution witnesses out of 12 awarded the judgment convicting the four.
Two of the convicts are in the jail while two others are absconding, court sources said.
