BANGLADESH: THREE GO TO GALLOWS IN DINAJPUR MURDER CASE

a court in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, sentenced three people to death for killing a young girl after raping her. The condemned convicts are Bidhan Chandra Roy, 25, Tushar Babu, 28, and Moni Chandra Roy, 28, of Durgapur village in Chirirbandar upazila. According to the prosecution, the three raped and strangled Mahjabeen Chowdhury Geeti at her Munshipara house in the district town on September 8, 2007. Judge Badsha Alamgir of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Court handed down the judgment.