A Sirajganj Court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a youth for raping and killing a girl in 2014.
Sirajganj’s Women and Child Repression Tribunal also fined convict Nur Islam, 30, Tk 1 lakh.
He was also given life term imprisonment for abducting the victim and fined Tk 50,000, in default to suffer one year more in jail.
Nur, son of Abdul Khaleq of Shibnathpur Village of the Sadar Upazila, called his neighbour Nazrul Islam’s daughter Ritu, 8, at his residence to enjoy TV.
Later, he took her to a nearby cropland where he killed her after raping.
The victim’s blood-stained body was recovered the next day.
Ritu’s mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case with Sirajganj Sadar Police Station in this connection.
