DHAKA, March 21, 2024 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today sentenced Rozina Akhtar and a man named Sultan Mahmud to life-term imprisonment for killing 2.5-year-old Israt Jahan Riya.

They were fined Tk 50,000 and six months more in default of payment.

Judge Syed Arafat Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 handed down the verdict today.
Sultan was brought to the court from prison during the verdict, and sent him to jail after the verdict was pronounced.

As Rozina Akhter is absconding, the court issued an arrest warrant against her.

According to the case, Rozina Akhtar went to see a doctor at the gynecological ward of Dhaka Medical College (DMCH) Hospital on January 3, 2012 at around 11:00 a.m..

As she went inside the doctor's room, leaving her daughter outside, Sultan came and took the girl to another place, introducing himself as the father of the baby.

Later, the girl's body was found on the roof of the third floor around 1:45 p.m.
Nurul Islam, the girl's actual father, filed a case with the Shahbag police station on January 5, accusing unknown persons of this incident.

Sultan, during the investigation, gave a confessional statement, saying that due to extramarital affairs, he and Rozina conspired to kill the child by suffocation.

On November 26, 2012, the investigating officer, Tapan Chandra Saha, Inspector of Police Intelligence and Crime Department, filed the charge sheet accusing Sultan and Rozina.