3 to Die for Raping Minor Girl in Feni

A court here today sentenced three people to death in a case filed over raping a minor girl in front of her mother in Sonagazi Upazila of the district in 2003.

The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Osman Haider handed down the verdict this afternoon.

The convicts are Mohammad Latu Miah, Abul Kashem, and Jahangir Alam. However, another accused Omar Farooq has been acquitted. The court also fined them, Taka, two lakh each.

According to the prosecution, the convicts entered the house, located at Nawabpur of Sonagazi Upazila, of the girl around 2 am and raped the minor girl in front of her mother on May 13, 2003.

The mother of the victim filed a case against four people with Sonagazi Model Police Station.