2 awarded death for rape, murder of RMG worker

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A Pabna tribunal on Wednesday sentenced two men to death for the rape and murder of a readymade garment worker in Sujanagar upazila in 2012, reports UNB.

The convicts are Azim Uddin, 45, of Bangram in Sujanagar and his friend Iqbal Hossain, 44, of Nabinagar, Dhaka.

Pabna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal also fined them Tk 100,000 each.

The prosecution said Kakoli Khatun, 30, daughter of a certain Jalil Sardar of Rajbari district, was brought to Sujanagar on 4 September 2012 by Iqbal and his friend Azim with promises of marriage.

The two men took her to a nursery where they raped and strangulated her.

On information, police recovered the body. A case was later filed in this connection.

After their arrest, the two confessed to raping and murdering the woman. Later, police pressed charges against them in court.

After examining the records, Pabna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Waliur Rahman sentenced them to death.