2 get life sentence for raping Kushtia schoolgirl

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A Kushtia court on Monday sentenced two accused to life term imprisonment for raping a schoolgirl in Kumarkhali upazila in 2015, reports UNB.

The convicts are Nazmul, 30, and Azam alias Sagar, 30, of Nandalalpur village of the same upazila.

The court also fined the convicts Tk 20,000.

According to the prosecution, the convict, Nazmul and Azam, abducted a minor girl from Alauddinnagar area of the upazila while she was going to take tuition by an auto-rickshaw on 18 August in 2015.

They took the girl to a flat in the district town and raped her.

Later, the family of the victim filed a case with Kumarkhali Police Station against the convicts. Police submitted charge sheet against them after investigation.

After examining witnesses and documents, Judge Mahmudul Haque of the Kushtia Additional District and Sessions Judge court-1 handed down the verdict today.