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A Shariatpur court has sentenced five men to death for the gang-rape and murder of a woman in 2019.
The district's Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Sohel Ahmed also fined the convicts Tk 100,000 each in the verdict delivered on Tuesday, according to court clerk Md Shahin.
The convicts are Nizam Bali, 45, Mohammad Ali, 35, Amar Faruk Bepari, 24, Al Amin Bepari, 20, and Ibrahim Molla, 21. All of them are residents of Sutolkathi village in Damudya Upazila.
Two of the suspects were in court when the verdict was announced. The others are absconding. The two who appeared in court were then sent to jail.
On Apr 18, 2019, 55-year-old Firoza Begum from Bhuiyan Bazar village went missing from her home around 5 pm. On Apr 21, police found her mutilated body in an abandoned pond 10 km away on the property of Abdur Rahman Master in the Boro Naogaon area.