Man gets 5 years imprisonment in Nagarkanda child rape attempt case

A court in Faridpur's Nagarkanda has sentenced a man named Ismail Molla to five years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Tk 20,000 in a case filed over the attempted rape of a 13-year-old special-needs child. In default of payment, he will have to serve an additional one year of simple imprisonment. Shamima Parveen, judge of the Faridpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal and District and Sessions Judge, announced the verdict on Thursday afternoon. The accused was present in court during the verdict and was later sent to the district jail under police guard.

According to the case statement, on the afternoon of December 15, 2025, the victim was returning home carrying water from a pond next to a grocery store in a village under Charjashordi union of Nagarkanda upazila. At that time, Ismail Molla allegedly took her into the shop and attempted to violate her. After the victim informed her family upon returning home, her father filed a case at Nagarkanda police station on December 21, naming Ismail Molla as the sole accused. Following the investigation, Nagarkanda police station Sub-Inspector Iranul Islam submitted the charge sheet to the court on February 27, 2026. The court delivered the verdict following the completion of the judicial process.

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