Three sentenced to death for raping doctor in Rajbari

A court has handed down the death penalty to three men for raping a doctor in Rajbari, reports bdnews24.com.

Rajbari's Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Sharmin Nigar passed the sentence on Wednesday while fining the convicts Tk 100,000 each, said Public Prosecutor Md Uzir Ali Sheikh

The recipients of the capital punishment are Rana Molla, Mamun Molla and Hannan Sardar, all from Majlishpur village in Rajbari.

According to the case dossier, a female doctor was travelling from Goalanda intersection to Shibrampur in an auto-rickshaw on February 23, 2018 along with two other passengers.

But the driver suddenly parked the three-wheeler in a secluded area before he and the two other passengers along with a few unidentified individuals dragged her out of the vehicle and raped her.