A court has sentenced a young man named Rifat bin Sajjad (24) to death for raping and murdering a young woman in Atwari, Panchagarh. He was also fined one lakh taka. On Monday afternoon, Judge Hussain Mohammad Fazlul Bari of the Panchagarh Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict after reviewing the testimonies of 19 witnesses and evidence. The convicted Rifat is a resident of Majhgram in Boda upazila.
According to the case statement, on January 13, 2025, Rifat met the victim at Dinajpur railway station while traveling by train to Panchagarh. Later, under various pretexts, he took her to a betel nut garden in the Kismat railgate area of Atwari and raped her. Fearing exposure, he killed the young woman by hitting her with a brick and a sharp weapon, and then left the body on the railway tracks before fleeing. The next morning, police recovered the mutilated body from the tracks.
Following the incident, Sub-Inspector Arshadul Haque of Atwari police station filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on March 8, 2025. On the same day, Rifat was detained for allegedly stealing an easy-bike, and police uncovered his involvement in the murder through information found on his mobile phone. State counsel Advocate Khalilur Rahman confirmed the matter of the verdict.
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