Man awarded life for raping 10-yr old

A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old.

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 28 May 2014, 03:50 PM
Updated : 28 May 2014, 03:50 PM

Judge Zakir Hossain of the city’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Special Tribunal-2 also fined Md Chagir Tk 50,000 on Wednesday.

Five have testified in the case, said the tribunal’s public prosecutor MA Naser.

The case details say Chagir lured a child, who was picking firewood with a friend at the city’s Narikeltala, to an abandoned house where he raped her on Mar 18, 2005.
The child’s father filed a case at the Bandar Police Station on Mar 20, and the charge-sheet was filed by Investigation Officer (IO) SI Khalilur Rahman on May 3 of the same year.
The court indicted Chagir on Aug 16.
The prosecutor said the judge, besides pronouncing the verdict ordered the authorities to take action against the IO who didn’t show up in court to testify despite the several notices that were issued to him.