A tribunal in Jamalpur on Sunday sentenced an imam of a mosque to life imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old student.
The convict is Musa Mia, hailing from Harichandi village in Fulchhari thana of Gaibandha district. He worked as an imam at a Jame Mosque and taught at a maktab at a village in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur.
Muhammad Abdur Rahim, judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 in Jamalpur, pronounced the judgment, said Public Prosecutor Fazlul Haque. It also fined him Tk5 lakh.
According to the prosecution, Musa used to send the other students home every morning and keep the girl at the mosque to do cleaning work.
Taking advantage of the situation, he raped her on November 28, December 1, and December 2, 2020, after luring her with the promise of marriage, the prosecution said.
After the girl's family learned about the incident, her mother filed a case with Dewanganj Police Station on December 8, six days after the last incident.
Police submitted the charge sheet to the court on May 5, 2021.