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Nusrat murder: HC upholds death sentences for 2, commutes for 4
The High Court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two convicts and commuted that of four others to life imprisonment in the much-discussed murder case of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in Sonagazi upazila of Feni.
The High Court bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja pronounced the verdict.
The condemned convicts are SM Siraj-ud-Daula, expelled principal of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa, and Shahadat Hossain alias Shamim.
The court acquitted the remaining 10 people as the charges against them were not proved.
The verdict was delivered in response to the death references and appeals filed in the case following the trial court’s verdict.
On October 24, 2019, Feni Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal sentenced all 16 accused to death for killing Nusrat, who was set on fire at her madrasa in April that year after she had accused the madrasa principal of sexual harassment.
The court also fined each of them Tk 1 lakh.
Nusrat died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 10, 2019, four days after she was attacked, reports UNB.