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Rapist Imam gets life term
A Shariatpur court has sentenced an Imam to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl three years ago.
Published : 5 Sept 2013, 02:05 PM
Updated : 5 Sept 2013, 02:05 PM
Judge Md Sajedul Karim of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal also fined Yasin Sikdar Tk 40,000 on Thursday.
Sikdar, an Imam at the Sadar Upazila’s Tetulia mosque and Nurani Hafezia Madrasa, will have to serve an additional year in prison if he fails to pay the fine.
Prosecutor Mirza Hazrat Ali said the convict had raped a 10-year-old girl who had come to take lessons on Quran from him on Jul 24, 2010.
The victim’s father had filed a case over the rape.
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