A Khulna tribunal on Wednesday sentenced a couple to death for selling a 17-year-old girl to a brothel in India.
Khulna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge A Salam Khan handed down the judgment.
The convicts are Shahin Sheikh and Asma Begum.
According to the prosecution, the convicts took the girl to India with the promise of arranging a good job and sold her there to a brothel on October 19, 2009.
As her family failed to trace her, they logged a general diary against the couple at the local police station.
Later, the family members contacted Shahin who asked them to give him Tk20,000 to get back the girl.
The girl’s mother lodged a complaint at Khanjahan Ali police station, and on January 20, 2010, the investigating officer of the case, Ashim Kumar, submitted a charge sheet against the couple.