3 awarded death for rape and murder of girl (5) in Mymensingh

Court decision

Mymensingh, July 9 - A Mymensingh tribunal on Thursday sentenced three individuals to death for killing a five-year-old girl by throwing her into a river after rape last month.

Judge of the Mymensingh Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Sudipta Sarkar handed down the judgement.

The condemned convicts are Arif, Rakib and Siam of Dhobaura upazila in the district. The tribunal also fined them Tk 2 lakh each.

Meanwhile, Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Mezbah Uddin Ahmed sentenced an underage boy – Maruf, 17 – to 10 years’ imprisonment in the case.

The verdict in the case was delivered within 25 days of the incident.

According to the prosecution, Nisa Moni, daughter of Taju Mia of Tangahati village in Dhobaura upazila, was raped by the convicts on June 14. Later, her body was thrown into the river.

On June 15, Taju Mia filed a case at Dhobaura Police Station in this regard. Police arrested the accused three days after the incident.

Police submitted a charge sheet against four people within nine days of the incident.

Expressing satisfaction over the judgement, the victim’s mother said, “If this verdict is executed swiftly, my daughter's soul will finally be at peace. I pray that no other mother has to endure the loss of a child as I had." - UNB