A Narsinghdi court has sentenced six men to death for gang-raping and taking videos of the brutalisation of a female worker three years ago.
Published : 23 Aug 2016, 05:45 PM
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Shamim Ahmed on Tuesday delivered the verdict in the presence of the convicts.
The convicts are Ashikur Rahman, 'Ilias', 'Rumin', 'Robin', 'Ibrahim' and Abdur Rahman.
The court also fined each of them Tk 100,000.
According to case details, the 20-year-old woman, who worked at Pran RFL Company, was attacked by the six on May 23 afternoon in 2013 when she was going home.
They whisked her away from in front of Janata Jute Mill and took her to a secluded place. There all of them took turns to rape her while taking videos of the brutal assault on their mobile phones. They released her afterwards.
The woman informed her company's Assistant Manager ASM Sadekul Islam about the rape the next day and started the case at Polash Police Station afterwards.
Sub-Inspector Biplab Kumar Dutta pressed charges in court against the six on Aug 15 that year.