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Youth gets life for rape

9 November 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

A Correspondent, Jessore

A Jessore court on Sunday sentenced a youth to life term rigorous imprisonment for raping a schoolgirl. The court also fined him 20 thousand taka, in default, to suffer more 5 years in jail. Convict Hakim alias Sagor, 24, is son of Sheikh Abdur Rahman of Dharmapur village under Keshabpur upazila. According to prosecution story, Sagor raped the class nine student of Chingra Secondary School several times on false promise of marriage. When she got pregnant, Sagor refused to marry her. The victim's father later filed a case with Keshabpur police station on 2001.