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Jailed for schoolgirl rape

6 July 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

A court in Habiganj on Saturday awarded life term to a man for raping a schoolgirl and also awarded 14 years RI on charge of kidnapping her. Convict Mizanur Rahman, 28, hails from Bangshipa village under Ajmiriganj upazila. According to the prosecution story, Mizan kidnapped Jony Akhtar Chowdhury, student of class VII and daughter of Dr Abdun Nur Chowdhury of the same village on May 17, 2004 when she was on her way to the school. He took her to Habiganj town and then to Chittagong and violated her. Police rescued Jony after a month.