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Two get life for rape

14 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Chapainawabganj

A Chapainawabganj court yesterday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment for raping a housewife in 2002. Judge Arup Kumar Goswami of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 handed down the verdict. The court also fined each of them Tk1 lakh, in default, to suffer more one year in jail. The convicts are Abdus Salam and Sadekul Islam of village Diar Dhainagar under Sadar upazila. According to the prosecution story, Nasrin Begum, wife of Tofazzal Hossain was going to neighbouring village Dhulipara from her Diar Dhainagar house in the evening of May 26, 2002. A gang led by Salam of the same area abducted her from Diar Dhainagar at gunpoint. They took her to the bank of the Mohananda River where Salam and his accomplices raped her by turn.