2 get death for killing 2 children after rape

Staff Reporter Published: 3 March 2020, 01:30 PM | Updated: 3 March 2020, 02:57 PM
2 get death for killing 2 children after rape

A Dhaka court has sentenced two people to death for killing two children after rape in the capital’s Demra. 

Judge Joyshree Samaddar of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 passed the order on Tuesday. 

The death-row convicts are Golam Mostofa and Azizul Bawani.  

According to the case statement, five-year-old Faria Akter Dola and four-and-half-year-old Nusrat Jahan were strangulated to death after being raped by the convicted criminals on January 7, 2019.  

Later, Nusrat’s father Polash Hawlader filed a case.

On January 22, 2019, Shah Alam, Sub Inspector of Demra Police Station, filed a charge sheet against Golam and Azizul.