A Chattogram court has sentenced life-term imprisonment to a man for raping a 15-year-old girl in Narayanhat hilly area under Fatikchari upazila in the district.
Judge of Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 Begum Ferdouse Ara yesterday passed the judgment convicting Mohammad Parvaj alias Masud, a resident of the area, for raping the girl in 2015.
The court also fined him TK two lakh. In default, he will have to suffer one year more imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, Parvaj raped his sister-in-law and took a video of the incident by a hidden mobile phone on August 5, 2019. Later, Parvaj again raped the girl on September 15 of the same year by intimidating her that he would make the video footage viral.
Later, the victim’s sister filed a rape case against Parvaj with Fatikchari police station on September 27.
Police submitted the charge sheet before the court on November 17, while the court framed charges on October 17 in 2021.
The court delivered the judgment after examining nine prosecution witnesses out of 12.
The convicted person was present during the pronouncement of the verdict.
