28 August 2025 :

A Cox's Bazar court on August 26, 2025 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.
Judge Mohammad Osman Gani of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 delivered the verdict in presence of the convict, Md Soleman, of Chakmarkul area in Teknaf's Whykong union, confirmed Public Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain.
According to court records, on November 30, 2022, after returning from school, the victim, a class-1 student, was playing in the yard of her home when Soleman lured her to his house with snacks and raped her.
When the child lost consciousness, he placed her inside a suitcase and took her to the Koriyardia embankment in Ujantia union of Pekua upazila.
After opening the suitcase, he found the girl dead and buried the body. Later that night, he phoned the victim's family, claiming she had been kidnapped and demanded Tk 5,00,000 ransom.
The family filed a general diary with police, and Soleman was arrested on December 3, according to case details.
State prosecutor Mir Mosharraf Hossain Titu said, "For such a heinous crime, the only real punishment can be the death penalty."
"This verdict will send a message to society that anyone committing such brutal crimes -- rape, murder, and abduction -- will face this kind of punishment," the prosecutor said.
The victim's father expressed satisfaction with the ruling.