A court in Dhaka on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing a four-year-old child after rape in the city's Badda area in 2017.
Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 Judge Sabera Sultana Khanam handed down the verdict this afternoon.
The convict is Shipon who gave a confessional statement before the court under section 164.
Afroza Farhana Ahmed, public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the matter.
According to the prosecution, police recovered the body of the child from Adarshanagar area on July 31, 2017.
A case was filed by the victim's father with Badda Police Station accusing Shipon. Police, later, submitted a charge-sheet against him to the court on January 26, 2019.
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