BSS, Jashore :
A court here Thursday sentenced a man to death in a case filed over killing a child after rape in Chaugachha upazila of the district in 2018.
The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, District and Sessions Judge Nilufar Shirin handed over the verdict this afternoon.
The convicted was identified as Tajibur Rahman, 50, a resident of Fakirabad area of the upazila.
The court also fined him Taka one lakh.
Advocate Mostafizur Rahman Mukul, Special Public Prosecutor (PP) of Jashore Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, confirmed the matter to BSS.
According to the details of the case, in the afternoon of June 22, 2018, Sharmila, a third class student, daughter of Hafizur Rahman Kalu, a resident of Fakirabad area of Chaugachha Upazila, went to pick mangoes in the mango garden of her neighbor Taimur Hossain Khan. She did not return home even after evening, the family members searched for her. On the evening of June 26, they came to know that a rotting body was lying in the mango garden of Zaman Mridha of the neighboring Hakimpur village. The relatives went there and identified her body.
Hafizur Rahman Kalu, the father of victim filed a murder case against Tajibur Rahman with Chaugachha police station on June 27, 2018.
Tajibur Rahman confessed to killing Sharmila after raping her.
Later, police submitted charge-sheet before the court against him.
After examining 14 witnesses, the court found him guilty and handed down the verdict Thursday.
