A tribunal in Khulna on Tuesday sentenced six men to death for raping a teenage girl in Sonadanga upazila in 2019.
The death-row convicts are Morshedul Islam Shanto alias Shanto Biswas, Sheikh Shahadat Hossain, Rabbi Hasan Parash, Mahmud Hasan Akash, Kazi Ariful Islam Pritam and Mim Hossain.
Khulna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 Judge Abdus Salam Khan delivered the judgment.
The court fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each.
According to the case, Shanto raped the sixth-grader girl after taking her to a rented house of another convict on June 29 in 2019. The other convicts recorded a video of the crime and raped the girl in terms.
On the following day, a case was filed against nine people at Sonadanga police station.
On November 13 of the same year, Sonadanga police station officer-in-charge (OC) Momtazul Hoque submitted, the investigation officer of the case, filed a chargesheet against 10 convicts.
