Youth gets life-term for killing child after rape in Khulna

Online Desk: A court in Khulna on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life-term imprisonment for killing a 7-year-old child after raped her in Khulna city on January 22, 2021. Khulna Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Motiur Rahman handed down the verdict in the morning. The court also fined the convicted Tk 50,000, in default, he will has to suffer more four months imprisonment. The convicted is Pritom Rudra, 29, a resident of Banikpara area in the city. According to the prosecution, the child, a third grader of Binapani High School, went to play with other children in the afternoon of...

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Online Desk: A court in Khulna on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life-term imprisonment for killing a 7-year-old child after raped her in Khulna city on January 22, 2021. Khulna Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Motiur Rahman handed down the verdict in the morning.

The court also fined the convicted Tk 50,000, in default, he will has to suffer more four months imprisonment. The convicted is Pritom Rudra, 29, a resident of Banikpara area in the city.

According to the prosecution, the child, a third grader of Binapani High School, went to play with other children in the afternoon of January 22, 2021 and didn’t return home. Family members started searching for her and filed a general diary with the concerned police station.

On January 28, police recovered the body of the child from a bathroom of a building in Banikpara area, after six days of her missing. Later, the victim’s father lodged a case with the police station and police arrested seven suspects in this regard on same day.

On January 30, the convicted confessed his crime in a confessional statement to a court of Khulna Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarwar Ahmed. According to the statement, he had to make the child unconscious by hitting in her head as she was screaming during the rape and then, he strangled her to death by a rope and shoestrings. Later, he hid the body in the garage space of his building and subsequently buried it in a bathroom of the ground floor.

After investigation, sub-inspector Mizanur Rahman, the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet to the court on April 10. Examining witnesses and evidences, the court handed down the verdict today. Public Prosecutor Abdul Malek, Ahaduzzaman and Sayed Tawfik Ullah confirmed the matter.