Shawdesh Desk:

The Noakhali Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 on Monday sentenced 10 people to death and six others to life term imprisonment in the case of the much-talked rape in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on the night of voting day of the 11th parliamentary elections in December 2018.

Judge Fatema Ferdous announce the judgement also fining the convicts Tk 50,000 each or to serve two more years in case of failure to pay the fine, assistant public prosecutor Saleh Ahmed Sohel Khan told reporters in the Noakhali district court premises.

He said that a total of 23 prosecution witnesses were produced before the court to prove the case.

Charges were framed against 16 accused and police arrested 15 of them, he said and added that eight of the arrested accused had given statements confessing their crimes.

The victim, a mother of four, was raped at Charjubli village in the upazila on December 31 by a group of 10 to 12 men allegedly being ordered by Ruhul Amin, former member of Charjubli union parishad and then organising secretary of the union unit of the ruling Awami League.

The rape incident drew huge criticism at home and aboard.

The victim’s husband filed a case with the Char Jabbar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on December 31, 2018.