Man gets life for rape
A court here yesterday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a schoolgirl in 2008. The convict, Ziaul Haque Titul, 35, is son of Kawsar Ali of Adatala village of Bholahat upazila. Mostaque Ahmed Sahdani, judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 handed down the verdict. According to the prosecution, Titul forcibly picked up a student of class nine when she was returning home from Baromasia beel, a water body, at Adampur village and raped her at a sugarcane field at around 9:00am on September 13, 2008. The victim filed a case against Titul on September 15. Police arrested the culprit on March 2, 2009.
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