a Dhaka court, in Bangladesh, has sentenced two persons to death

06 February 2013 :

a Dhaka court, in Bangladesh, has sentenced two persons to death for raping two garments workers and killing one of them in Dhaka’s Mirpur area. Acting Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 delivered the verdict.
Mohammad Nazrul Islam, owner of S Nahar Garments in Mirpur, and his accomplice Mohammed Mostafa are both absconding and have been tried in absentia.
The court also fined them Tk 2 million each.
In October 2006 Mostafa is said to have lured two women to Islam’s Paikpara home and both of them were raped. Both the women worked in a garment factory.
Later, Mostafa and Islam killed one of the women who was called 'Beauty' after she had threatened to go public on the rapes.
 

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