A court has sentenced Aman Ullah Mahmudi Sagor, a madrasa director and teacher, to death in a widely discussed case over the rape of a child student in Madan upazila of Netrokona.
Judge Abdus Salam of the Netrokona Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal announced the verdict on Wednesday afternoon.
Advocate Md Nurul Kabir Rubel, public prosecutor of the Women and Children Oppression Prevention Tribunal, confirmed the verdict.
Earlier, the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Aman Ullah Sagar, 30, founder of Hazrat Fatema Tuz Zohra Women Quawmi Madrasa, from Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh.
Mother of the girl filed a case with Madan Police Station on April 23 in this connection.
According to the case statement, the mother took her daughter to a local diagnostic center seeing her health condition where she came to know about her pregnancy.
The girl said the teacher of the madrasa asked her to clean the veranda of the madrasa on October 2.
Later, the teacher forcibly took her to an abandoned room and violated her. The teacher also threatened her not to disclosed the matter to anyone.
The girl used to live with her grandmother as her mother worked as a domestic help in Sylhet.
The incident went viral on social media.
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