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DATE-ARGUMENTS-MURDER-SAIMA
Arguments in Wari child rape, murder case March 5
DHAKA, Feb 23, 2020 (BSS) – A special tribunal today set March 5 to
start placing arguments by the prosecution in the case filed over the rape
and subsequent murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in the capital’s
Wari area last year.
Judge Qazi Abdul Hannan of Dhaka 1st Women and Children Repression
Prevention Tribunal set the date as sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in his
statement in self-defence pleaded not guilty.
Saima’s father Abdus Salam filed the case under Women and Children
Repression Prevention Act with Wari Police Station on July 6, 2019, and
police on July 7 managed to arrest alleged killer Harun-ur Rashid from
Cumilla.
Dhaka 1st Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal framed
charges against Harun on January 2, 2020.
Saima, nursery-grade student of Silverdale School went missing after
going out to play in the afternoon on July 5. Her body was found on the 8th
floor of their under construction building at 8pm, with a rope still wrapped
around her neck.
It was found later that the little girl was brutally raped by Harun and
the killer dragged her lifeless body by tying a rope around her neck and took
it to the kitchen of that vacant flat and fled the scene.
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