Youth gets life for raping minor girl

A court in Munshiganj on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life term imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl in Sadar upazila of the district.

The district Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Md Zakir Hossain delivered the verdict against Mohsin, 32.

The court also fined him Tk 50,000. 

The case statement said Mohsin violated the minor girl in Firingibazar area on November 29, 2017 when she was returning home after meeting her mother at a factory.

A day later, the victim's father lodged a case with Sadar Police Station in this connection under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.