A Noakhali court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over gang-rape and torture of a woman in the district's Begumganj upazila in 2020.
The convicts have also been fined Tk50,000 each by the district's Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Judge Jainal Abedin.
If they fail to pay the fine, they will have to serve another three months in prison, the court said.
The convicts are Noor Hossain Badal, Abdur Rahim, Mohammad Ali alias Abul Kalam, Israfil Hossain Miah, Moyeen Uddin Sazu, Shamsuddin Sumon, Abdur Rob Chowdhury, Mostafizur Rahman Arif, Jamal Uddin, Noor Hossain Russel, Mizanur Rahman Tareq, Anwar Hossain Sohag and Delwar Hossain.
Among them, Abdur Rob, Mostafizur, Jamal and Mizanur are still on the run while the rest were brought before the court around 10:00am.
On March 24, the same court framed charges against these 13 people in the case.
On September 2, 2020, a gang of criminals brutally abused the woman after breaking into her home in the upazila.
On October 2, 2020, a video of the incident went viral on social media, sparking outrage across the country.
Later, three separate cases were filed by the victim in this connection.
On December 15, 2020, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) filed a charge sheet in court on against 14 people in one of the cases.
