A condemned convict was hanged on Sunday night at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur for killing his pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter in 2006.
Senior Jail Super Abdul Jalil Roy said Abdul Gafur, son of Shamsul Haque of Ramgati upazila in Laxmipur district,was executed around 11:55 pm.
Gazipur Additional District Magistrate Abul Kalam Azad, Civil Surgeon Dr Mohammad Khairuzzaman were present during the execution.
On October8, 2006, a case was filed against Gafur for killing his five-month pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter over family feud at Ramgati in Laxmipur district.
On April 28, 2008, Laxmipur Additional District and Sessions Judge sentenced him to death.
Madrasa teacher arrested for ‘raping 6 students’
A madrasa teacher was arrested on Tuesday on allegation of raping at least 6 students of the institute in Lakshmipur, reports news agency UNB.
Locals had kept Mobarak Hossain, 28, confined at the Muslimabad Ta’limul Quran Islami Academy in sadar upazila’s Hajirpara union before Chandraganj police station in-charge Jsahim Uddin came and detained him and rescued the 6 victims.
The mother of one of the victims has filed a case with the police station. Mobarak from of Raipur upazila is also the director of the madrasa.
According to the case statement, Mobarak had raped at least 6 students several times and recorded the rape incidents on his phone. He threatened the victims to keep silent.
Locals assumed the situation when one of the victims kept bleeding.
Mobarak, an Imam at a local mosque, established the madrasa at West Kalidasbag in 2018. The madrasa had 30 residential students.
The local administration shut down the madrasa after the rape incidents came to light.
Additional superintendent of police Md Mimtanur Rahman said they were taking legal actions against the madrasa teacher.
The government has recently incorporated death penalty in the law as the highest punishment for rape.
Source: unb.com.bd, prothomalo.com, Staff, November 4, 2020
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