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  12 Mar 2025, 14:40
Update : 12 Mar 2025, 15:02

Three get life imprisonment over Kamrangirchar gang rape

Three convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang rape of a minor girl in Kamrangirchar. Photo : BSS

DHAKA, March 12, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today convicted and sentenced 
three people to life imprisonment in a case lodged over gang raping of a girl 
child, 13, in suburban Kamrangirchar area in 2020.

The court also sentenced two underage convicts to maximum 10-year 
imprisonment.

"Judge Munshi Md Moshiyar Rahman of Dhaka Women and Children Repression 
Prevention Tribunal-4 pronounced the judgment," public prosecutor Ershadul 
Alam (George) told BSS.

The convicts, who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, are-- Mohon, son 
of Jamal Uddin of Faridpur village under Dhunot upazila of Bogura district, 
Sabbir, son of Md Mizan of Mukundgati village under Belkuchi upazila of 
Sirajganj district, and Russel, son of Abul Kalam of Chikondi village under 
Sadar upazila of Shariatpur district. 

The court also fined them Taka one lakh each, in default, to suffer one-year 
more behind the bars.

The court also fined the two underage convicts Taka one lakh each or to 
suffer one-year more behind the bars.

The court today came up with the judgment in presence of the three main 
convicts and sent them back to jail with conviction warrants. The tribunal 
issued arrest warrant against the two underage convicts as they are yet to be 
arrested and tried in absentia.

According to the case documents, the convicts took the child in an under 
construction building in Hasan Nagar under Kamrangirchar on June 17, 2020, 
and gang raped her. 

Victim's mother filed the case and the police later filed charge-sheet 
against the five.