A Feni court on Thursday sentenced three people to death in a case filed over raping a minor girl in front of her mother in Sonagazi upazila of the district in 2003.
The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Osman Haider handed down the verdict.
The convicts are Mohammad Latu Miah, Abul Kashem and Jahangir Alam. However, another accused Omar Farooq has been acquitted. The court also fined them Tk200,000 each.
According to the prosecution, the convicts entered the house, located at Nawabpur of Sonagazi upazila, of the girl around 2am and raped the minor girl in front of her mother on May 13, 2003.
The mother of the victim filed a case against four people with Sonagazi Model police station.
