Rapist gets life
A court here on Sunday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for violating a girl. The court also fined the convict, Tauhidur Rahman Biraj, son of Hamsed Ali of Biswanathpur village under Shibganj upazila, Tk 20,000, in default, he is to suffer another year in jail. According to the prosecution, Biraj raped a girl of the village on the night of December 1 in 2004. Later, the village people in arbitration asked Biraj to marry the girl, which he refused. After his refusal, the victim filed a case with Shibganj Police Station. After examining the records and witnesses Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Arup Kumer Goswami pronounced the verdict.
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