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Killer Harun gets death over Saima murder-rape in city
DHAKA, March 9, 2020 (BSS) – A special tribunal here today awarded the sole
accused death penalty in a case lodged over rape and subsequently murder of
seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in capital’s Wari area last year.
Judge Qazi Abdul Hannan of Dhaka 1st Women and Children Repression
Prevention Tribunal pronounced the judgement in presence of the lone accused
Harun-ur Rashid.
Expressing satisfaction over the verdict, Saima’s parents Abdus Salam and
Sanzida Akter pleaded to execute the death sentence soon.
The tribunal on March 5 set today to pronounce judgement in the case as
both the prosecution and defence concluded their parts of arguments on that
day.
A total of 14 witnesses out of 17 testified before the court on different
dates in this sensational case.
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, a nursery student of Silverdale School, went missing after going out
to play in the afternoon on July 5. Her body later was found on the 8th floor
of their under construction building at 8pm, with a rope tied to her neck.
It was found later that the minor girl was first brutally raped and killed
by Harun and then the killer dragged her lifeless body to the kitchen of a
vacant flat on 8th floor by tying a rope to her neck and fled the scene.
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