A court here yesterday sentenced a young man to death in a case filed for killing a girl after rape about three years ago.
Fatema Nazib, district judge of Gazipur Women and Children Oppression Prevention Tribunal, convicted Jahangir, 22, son of Md Ali, a resident of Bandabari village in Kaliakair upazila of the district, in the case.
The court also fined him Tk1 lakh and directed the authorities concerned to give the money to the victim’s family members after collection.
According to the case statement, Jahangir in 2011 had developed a romantic relation with a girl promising to marry her. However, at one stage, the girl became pregnant and she started pressing Jahangir to marry her.
On September 4 that year, the convict met her on the Amtali-Boali road in the upazila and later he murdered her by strangulating with her scarf in the nearby deep forest of the road.
On the following day, locals recovered the body and informed police who sent the body to Gazipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
In the incident, the girl’s father filed a case with Kaliakair police station, in which the court pronounced the verdict to him after examining all witness and evidence.