HC confirms death penalty for three for raping, killing teen

The High Court has confirmed the trial court’s death sentence for three men who in 2006 had raped a teenaged girl in Sylhet and then killed her in an attempt to cover up the crime. The death row convicts are Saad Ahmed, Ruhul Amin and ‘Atik’. Among them, Saad and Amin are behind bars while ‘Atik’ is on the run. According to the prosecution, the miscreants took turns to violate the approximately 13-year-old girl before killing her in Nolua Haor in Golapganj Upazila in Sylhet on November 28, 2006. A case was field with Golapganj Police Station over the incident. Among the three accused, Saad and Amin was arrested in 2007 and they gave confessional statements before a court after the same year. Police pressed charges against the three accused in Sylhet’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal that year. Later the case was shifted to Sylhet’s Speedy Trial Tribunal which sentenced them to death in 2009. Convicts Amin and Saad sought acquittal when the case was put up at the HC for approval to carry out the death sentence. The bench of justices Md Abdul Hye and Krishna Debnath passed the order on Thursday, according to a news agency.