BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE

A court in Faridpur on September 25, 2023 sentenced two people to death on the charge of killing a woman after rape at Sadar upazila in 2017.
Faridpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Hafizur Rahman handed down the verdict around 4:00 pm.
The convicts are Arzu Mollick, 31, and Sabuj Miah, 36, residents of Mamudpur village in the upazila. The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each.
Swapon Pal, public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the matter.
According to the prosecution, police recovered the body of a woman, hailed from Chattogram, from a banana orchard in Mamudpur village on December 21, 2017.
Abdul Gaffar, assistant sub-inspector of Faridpur Kotwali Police Station, being a plaintiff, filed a case on that day with the police station accusing known people.
After that, the investigating officer of the case and inspector of the police station Enayet Hossain submitted a chargesheet against Arzu and Sabuj to the court on November 19, 2018.