Rapist gets life sentence

A court in Chattogram has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl in the hill town of Narayanhat in Fatikchari upazila of the district.

Judge of the Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, Begum Ferdouse Ara, delivered the verdict yesterday convicting local resident Mohammad Parvaj alias Masud for raping the girl in 2015.

The court also sentenced him to pay a fine of 200,000 taka or face another year in prison.

According to the prosecution, Parvaj raped his sister-in-law and videotaped the incident using a hidden mobile phone on August 5, 2019. Later, on September 15 of the same year, Parvaj raped the girl again and threatened her that he would make the video viral.

Later, the victim’s sister filed a rape complaint against Parvaj at the Fatikchari police station on September 27.

The police filed the chargesheet with the court on November 17, while the court framed the charges on October 17, 2021.

The court made the verdict after hearing nine of twelve witnesses for the prosecution.

The convicted person was present when the verdict was announced.