3 get death for gang-raping indigenous girl

Courtesy: DhakaTribune, Sep 24, 2013

(http://www.dhakatribune.com/law-amp-rights/2013/sep/24/3-get-death-gang-raping-ethnic-girl)

 

Justice served after two years

A Chittagong court on Tuesday gave the death sentence to three accused of gang-raping an indigenous girl in 2011.

Justice Mohammad Rezaul Karim, of a special tribunal concerned with violence towards women and children, also fined the three Tk100,000 each.

The convicts are: Kamal Uddin (alias Jewel), 22; Mohammad Iqbal Hossain, 20; and Suman Robi Das, 18; all from Rangunia upazila, Chittagong.

They were sent to Chittagong Central Jail after the verdict was delivered.

Public prosecutor MA Naser Chowdhury told the Dhaka Tribune that the accusations had been proven beyond doubt.

Advocate Mohammad Idris said the trio had abducted the victim, a girl of Marma ethnicity, from Rangamati and had locked her up for four days in Chittagong city on November 8, 2011.

Luring her under the pretense of providing her with a job, they gang-raped her.

On November 12, the girl fled and lodged a case with Rangunia police, accusing four people.

Three of the four accused have been given the death sentence.

After charges were filed against five people in April 2012, the accused were indicted on November 3 last year.