In the high-profile case involving the rape and brutal murder of child Ramisa Akter in Pallabi, Mirpur, in the capital, a special tribunal in Dhaka has sentenced Sohel Rana and his wife Swapna Akter to death.
Judge Masrur Salekin of the Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal announced the verdict at around 11:37 on Sunday.
At 11:00 am , Judge Masrur Salekin of the Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal began reading out the verdict.
Earlier in the day, at around 8:30 am, Swapna Khatun, the wife of the accused Sohel and also an accused in the same case, was brought to the court.
Later, at 8:50 am, police transported the principal accused, Sohel Rana, from prison to the Dhaka Metropolitan Court premises in a prison van. Both of them were subsequently kept in the court's holding cell.
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