BANGLADESH: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CUMILLA FOR 2018 RAPE FOLLOWED BY MURDER

November 17, 2022:

A tribunal in Cumilla on 8 November 2022 sentenced two men to death for killing a 10-year-old girl after rape in Monohargonj upazila in 2018.
The death-row convicts are Bacchu Mia and Amir Hamza, residents of the upazila.
Cumilla Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Abdullah Al Mamun delivered the judgment.
The court also fined the convicts Tk 1 lakh each.
According to the case, the minor girl was raped and hacked to death by the convicts in the upazila on 5 March in 2018.
Later, police recovered the body and sent it to Cumilla Medical College and Hospital for autopsy.
A case was filed at Monohargonj police station in this regard.
On 12 February in 2019, a chargesheet against the convicts was submitted to the court.