The High Court yesterday reinstated the verdict of a speedy trial tribunal that had sentenced three people to death in a case filed for molesting, and then killing a teenage girl in Sylhet in 2006 to cover up their crime.
A HC bench of Justice Md Abdul Hye and Justice Krishna Debnath gave the order and they approved the carrying out of the execution order to the three convicts - Saad Ahmed and Ruhul Amin and Atik. Of them, Atik has remained on the run.
According to the case statement, Saad and Ruhul prayed acquittal to the bench during the hearing.
Deputy Attorney General Md Monirujjaman Rubel and Assistant Attorney General Abul Kalam Azad moved for the state side while advocate SM Mubin for the convicts side.
On November 28, 2006, the convicts raped a 13-year-old girl and they killed her before throwing away her body in an abandoned place of Nolua Haor in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet.
In the incident, the then Golapganj police station SI Tapas Kumar filed a case and later police arrested Saad and Ruhul who gave their confessional statements before a court in the following year.
In the same year, police pressed charges in the case against the three with Sylhet Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal.
Afterwards, the case was shifted to Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal which pronounced the death penalty to the trio in 2009.
