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Published : 22 Feb 2026, 12:08 PM
A Dhaka court has sentenced four men to life imprisonment in a gang rape case filed in 2009 in Kamrangirchar.
Judge Munshi Md Moshiar Rahman of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 delivered the verdict on Sunday, according to Public Prosecutor Ershad Alam.
The convicts are Shahidul Islam, 23, Saiful Islam, 25, Nizam, 24, and Monir Hossain, also known as Sentu, 26.
In addition to the jail sentence, each of the convicts has been fined Tk 100,000. In default of payment, they will have to serve a further year of simple imprisonment.
The tribunal also directed the Dhaka district magistrate to recover the fines by selling the convicts’ movable and immovable properties and deposit the money with the state treasury.
Among the convicts, Saiful remains absconding and the tribunal has issued a warrant for his arrest. The other three were present in court and were sent to jail after the verdict.
The case relates to the gang rape of a woman in Ashrafabad.
According to the case dossier, the incident took place on the evening of Sept 26, 2009, when the victim went to an embankment near a flour mill and boat terminal in Ashrafabad with a friend. After her friend left, the convicts forced her onto a boat at knifepoint, pushed the boatman into the Buriganga River and took the boat midstream, where they raped her in turns.
The victim was later locked inside a room in a house, according to the prosecution.
Her parents rescued her and admitted her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. She later filed a case with the police.
Police submitted the chargesheet on Oct 31, 2010. The tribunal recorded testimony from eight witnesses during the trial before delivering the verdict.
