A Chittagong court has sentenced a madrasa teacher to death for raping four children of the institution.
Judge Zainal Abedin of the Third Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Chittagong delivered the verdict in the presence of Nasir Uddin, 47, on Sunday.
The convict was sent to jail after the verdict, the tribunal’s prosecutor, Ziku Barua, said.
According to the charge sheet, the four students of a madrasa at Rangunia in Chittagong were raped on October 12, 2020. Later, the father of one of the children filed the case against Nasir Uddin.
The tribunal indicted the teacher on January 24, 2022, and started the trial. It recorded the statements of 11 witnesses before delivering the verdict.
