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Youth to die for killing RMG worker after rape

Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a youth to death for killing a garments worker after rape adjacent to MH Hall on Jahangirnagar University campus at Savar in August, 2004.
Judge AKM Mostafa Zaman of the First Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression handed down the sentence in absence of the convict Mohammad Liton at a packed courtroom.
The court acquitted Fazlul Haque alias Fazar Ali, 24, Mohammad Delwar, 32, and Mohammad Kabir, 20, as the charges brought against them were not proved.
In his order, the judge said the prosecution has proved the charges against. Liton beyond doubt and he was given death sentence for committing such heinous offences.
The punishment of the fugitive will be effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, the court said.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 22 prosecution witnesses.
According to the prosecution, a 22-year-old garments worker Rahela Akhter Lima, was mugged, raped and left with her throat slit on the leafy Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on August 22,2004. - . ; . . .
The incident occurred when she was returning home along the JU premises on August 22 when her former colleague Liton requested her to meet Delwar, another colleague.
As she advanced, Liton, Delwar and two others gagged her, took away her gold ornaments and Tk 2,800, her salary, reportedly
gangraped her and struck her neck with a chopper.
Mistaking her for dead, the culprits left the spot. But the criminals found her alive when they came to see the dead body on August 24. They poured acid into Rahela's mouth to confirm her death when she asked for drinking water.
Sensing someone's presence in the bush, a gardener approached and found Rahela.
However, the gardener fled taking her for an apparition and informed about the matter to others.
On information, police rescued her and sent her to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for treatment. Gangrene had set in her body in the wake of acid burns.
Her spinal cord was cut off and her wounds were exposed to infection as she was left abandoned in the open for three days.
Victim had given a dying declaration before a first class magistrate on September 1 at DMCH where she named assailants how they raped, mugged and struck her with a sharp chopper.
In her statement recorded by First Class Magistrate Mofizur Rahman, said Liton and others forced her enter the JU campus and raped her. After committing the offences, they struck her with a sharp chopper and left her at a bush taking her for dead.
. After Lighting with life,, she succqiphed,iq.. her injuries atuMCH on Sspltember^.''
Sub-Inspector (SI) Madan Mohan Banik of Savar Police Station filed a case against Liton and three others on September I. The investigation officer pressed charges against Liton and three others on December 31,2004.