Five young men have been sentenced to death for rape and killing of a young woman in Dangi village of Char Bhadrasan upazila about three years ago.

Shamsunnahar Begum, judge of the special court, on March 30 handed down the death penalty to Alamgir Khan, Alamgir Karikar, Alamgir Mondal, Kalam Mondol and Rafiq Mondal of the same village.

According to the prosecution, the culprits seduced Rabeya Begum, 25, mother of a boy and abandoned by her husband, to a secluded place on the night of August 5, 1999.

There she was gang-raped by the five youngsters.

Fearing that Rabeya might tell the police, they inflicted multiple injuries on her body with knife. Thinking her dead, they threw Rabeya to a marshy field behind the cinema hall at Char Bhadrasan.

In the morning she was rescued by the local people and rushed to the health complex in a critical condition. Later, Rabeya was

shifted to Faridpur general hospital where she died within 15 days of admission.

Before death in the hospital, Rabeya narrated to the police the incident naming the culprits who stabbed her indiscriminately after sexually assaulting her.

Her father Abul Kashem Fakir then filed a case under the Women and Child Repression Act against the culprits and police arrested them all.