Refusal to Marry
Schoolboy to die for killing college girl
A schoolboy was sentenced to death yesterday for killing a college girl who declined his proposal of marriage.
Menoka, 22, a masters' student of Eden College, was stabbed to death by Tariquzzaman Kabir, an SSC student, on July 15 last year for her refusal to marry him.
Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 handed down the sentence in presence of the convict Triquzzaman Kabir at a packed courtroom.
Victim's parents -- Mohammad Tutfe Rabbani and Hasina Rabbani -- expressing satisfaction over the verdict urged the government to execute the penalty immediately. If the penalty is executed immediately, their daughter's soul will be in peace, they added.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defence completed their arguments while the court recorded statements of 22 prosecution witnesses.
According to the prosecution, Kabir, a distant relative of the victim, proposed to Menoka which she refused as the youth was her distant maternal uncle. Besides, Kabir was an SSC student while Menoka a student of masters at Eden College.
Angered by refusal by Menoka, Kabir decided to teach her a good lesson. Later, he went to the victim's Paikpara residence in the city's Mirpur area and knifed her to death at about 1:45pm on July 15 last year.
After committing the crime, Kabir asked the victim's mother to inform it to police. Later, Mirpur police arrested him from the spot.
Victim's father Lutfe Rabbani, an accounts officer of Sinha Textile Group, filed a murder case against Kabir the same day.
The investigation officer pressed charge against the accused on September 27 the same year.
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