4 to die for killing Narayanganj schoolgirl after rape

A Narayanganj court has handed down the death penalty to four men and sentenced a woman to life in prison for killing a schoolgirl after raping her in Narayanganj's Fatullah in 2005.

The death-row convicts are Kamrul, Robiul, Ali Akbar and Sukkur Ali. Robiul’s mother, Dolly Begum, got life in prison, and both of them are on the run.

Another woman suspected in the case was acquitted.

Judge Nazmul Haque Shyamol of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict on Tuesday.

Three convicts were present in court when the verdict was delivered.

The case was started in June 2005, following the death of 6th-grader Afsana Akter Nipa.

The victim, 11-year-old Nipa, was the daughter of Akhtar Hossain, a construction worker, from Fatullah’s Char Rajapur.

Police recovered Nipa’s body from a field in Boktaboli Union’s Laksminagar village on Jun 3, 2005.

Police pressed charges against six suspects over the murder and rape one year after the inciden