Youth gets death for raping, killing child

A youth was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the rape and murder of a child in 2014.

Sirajganj’s Women and Child Repression Tribunal also fined convict Nur Islam, 30, Tk 1 lakh.

He was also jailed for life for abducting the victim and fined Tk 50,000. He will have to spend another year in jail if he fails to pay the fine.

Nur, the son of Abdul Khaleq of Shibnathpur village of the sadar upazila, called his neighbour’s daughter Ritu, 8, daughter of neighbour Nazrul Islam, at his residence to enjoy TV.

Later, he took her to a nearby cropland where he raped her before killing her.

The victim’s blood-stained body was recovered the next day. Her mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case with Sirajganj Sadar Police Station.