Online Desk: A Faridpur court on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing a jute mill worker after rape in 2019. Faridpur Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Hafizur Rahman handed down the punishment. The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each.

The condemned convicts are—Chunnu Shikdar, Nazmul Hossain, Islam Mir, Atier Molla and Nasir Khan Nayon of Madhukhali upazila.

According to the prosecution, on October 15, 2019, the convict Chunnu, a human hauler driver, took a female worker of Rajdharpur Pride Jute Mill in Madhukhali upazila to a banana orchard at Rajdharpur around 11:30 pm while she was returning to her home after completing overtime duty.

The four other convicts saw them and they also violated the woman in turns and strangled the woman to death with a scarf. The next day, police recovered the body from the spot. Kallyani Biswas, mother of victim, filed a case with Madhukhali Police Station. Police submitted chargesheet against five people On December 31, 2019.