A court in Natore on Tuesday sentenced two people to life imprisonment due to their crime of raping a minor girl in district’s Baraigram upazila in 2016, reports BSS.
The convicts are Sohag, 29, and Sagor, 27, of Dhulia village of the upazila.
The court also sentenced another accused, Roni, to 10 years of detention under the Children's Act.
Natore Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Abdur Rahim handed down the verdict in the presence of the convicts.
The convicts were fined Tk 20,000 each and ordered to give it to the victim.
Special Public Prosecutor Anisur Rahman said that on the night of April 10, 2016, the accused picked up the 10-year-old girl from a fair (Jalsa Mela) at Dhulia village of Baraigram upazila and took her to a beel where they molested her.
Later, a case was filed following a complaint filed by the victim's mother.
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
