Man to walk the gallows for raping, killing child in Narsinghdi in 2015

A Narsinghdi court has sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in the district’s Monoharganj Upazila last year.

Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Shamim Ahmed delivered the verdict on Wednesday afternoon.
 
The convict, Kiran Mia, 30, of the same Upazila, was also fined Tk 100,000, said Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) Shariful Islam Chowdhury.
 
Quoting case details, he said Abdul Awal’s daughter Rahima Begum, 11, of Kaheter Gaon village, had gone to a neighbour’s home to watch television on the night of Jan 3, 2015. She went missing on her way back home.
 
Her body was found in an abandoned field near her home the next morning.
 
Awal later lodged the murder case accusing Kiran Mia and Noor Chan.
 
After his arrest, Kiran during interrogation confessed to committing the crimes. Later, police submitted the chargesheet in the case naming Kiran, said APP Chowdhury.