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Man to die, 2 get life for killing child in Gazipur

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Update: 2017-11-22 09:14:32
Man to die, 2 get life for killing child in Gazipur

GAZIPUR: A district court on Wednesday (November 22) awarded death sentence to a man, and life imprisonment to two other men on charge of killing a seven-year-old girl at Sreepur upazila in Gazipur.

The court also fined the death-raw convict Tk 10, 00, and Tk. 5000 each for the lifers.
 
Judge AKM Enamul Haque of Gazipur District and Sessions Court pronounced the verdict in the presence of the three convicts.

The death-raw convict is Md. Ripon Miah, 33, son of Hasmot Ali Alias Hashem of Chowkpara area of Sreepur upazila, and the lifers are -Robiul Islam, 22 son of Md.Rahim of Bogra, and Md. Mojaffar, 21, son of Md. Mostafa of Sherpur.

Court sources said that Ripon, maternal uncle of the girl-Nazmin, slit the throat of his niece while she was asleep at night on October 30 in 2015.
 
Ripon killed the girl to trap his neighbors as they had enmity between them over land dispute. He even filed a case against them.

However, the facts were unfolded during police investigation and case turned against him along with other two individuals.

Gazipur court inspector Rabiul Islam confirmed the matter to Banglanews.

BDST: 2015 HRS, NOV 22, 2017
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