A Jamalpur tribunal on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the gang rape of a teenage girl in the district in 2024.
Jamalpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Judge Abdur Rahim delivered the verdict.
The condemned convicts are Md Shipon, 21, son of Abdus Sobhan, Md Ibrahim, 27, son of Siddique Mollah, and Yusuf Ali, 22, son of Arman Ali of Shildah village in Islampur upazila of the district.
The tribunal also fined the convicts Tk 2 lakh each, ordering that the money be given to the rape survivor.
According to the prosecution, the girl had developed a relationship with her neighbor Sadik. With a promise to marry her, Sadik took the girl to a jungle adjacent to their house where he violated her on April 19, 2024.
As the three convicts appeared there sensing the matter, Sadik fled the scene leaving the girl behind.
Later, they violated the girl in turns. When the girl became sick, they abandoned her in front of her house at night.
The victim’s father filed a case against four people, including Sadik, with Islampur Police Station over the incident.
After examining records and nine witnesses, the tribunal acquitted Sadik as allegation brought against him could not be proved.
