A Chattogram court has sentenced eight people to death in a case filed over the killing of nine-year-old girl Fatema Akter Mim after rape.
Chattogram Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 passed the order on Monday.
M A Naser, Public Prosecutor of the tribunal, confirmed the matter to Jago News.
The death-row convicts are Moinul Islam, Md Belal Hossen, Rabiul Islam, Hasibul Islam Hasib, Akman Miah, Md Sujon, Md Mehraj Tutul, Shahdat Hossen Soikot. Of them, Soikot is absconding.
On January 21, 2018, Mim, a student of Fatematuzzohra Hifzul Quran Madrassa, went missing from in front of her house four hours before her body was found in a building named ‘Ayesha Momtaj Mahal’.
On January 22, Mim’s mother Rabeya Begum filed a case of rape and murder.