A court in Noakhali has sentenced 13 people to ten years of rigorous imprisonment in the gang-rape of a woman in Begumganj upazila last year.
In its verdict on Monday, the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 1 fined the convicts Tk50,000 each, failing to pay which will result in another three months in jail.
On September 2, 2020, the perpetrators barged into the victim’s home at Joykrishnapur village of Eklashpur union and stripped her naked before raping her.
The rapists recorded the horrific incident on video, which surfaced on the social media, fuelling a nationwide protest for weeks.
The convicts are Noor Hossain Badal, Abdur Rahim, Mohammad Ali alias Abul Kalam, Israfil Hossain Miah, Moyeen Uddin Sazu, Shamsuddin Sumon, Abdur Rob Chowdhury, Mostafizur Rahman Arif, Jamal Uddin, Noor Hossain Russel, Mizanur Rahman Tareq, Anwar Hossain Sohag and Delwar Hossain.
Nine of the convicts were on the docks, when the judge delivered the verdict.
Convicts Abdur Rob, Mostafizur, Jamal and Mizanur were tried as fugitives to justice.