A court has sentenced a young man named Md. Mahmudul Hasan Shakil (30) to life imprisonment in a case filed over abducting and raping a schoolgirl under the pretext of marriage in Jamalpur's Dewanganj. He was also fined five lakh taka.
On Sunday afternoon, Muhammad Abdur Rahim, judge of the Jamalpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1, delivered the verdict. The accused was not present in court at the time of the verdict announcement. The convicted Mahmudul Hasan Shakil is the son of Saidur Rahman from the Satani Muthuradi area of Sherpur's Sherpur Upazila.
According to the case statement, on the evening of May 12, 2019, Shakil abducted the schoolgirl from the Taratia Bazar area of Dewanganj by luring her with a promise of marriage. Later, he took her to a house in Sherpur's Sherpur upazila and raped her. Afterward, she was confined in a rented house in the Deura area of Tongi, Dhaka, and raped multiple times. Following this incident, the schoolgirl's father filed a general diary (GD) at the Dewanganj Model Police Station.
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