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Killer gets death in Wari schoolgirl Saima rape-murder case
DHAKA, March 9, 2020 (BSS) – A special tribunal here today sentenced the
sole accused to death 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 accused
Harun-ur Rashid.
“That innocent child was subjected to maximum brutality, making us all
ashamed as human being. So the accused cannot get any compassion from this
court. It is logical to award him the maximum punishment,” the court said in
its observation.
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 last. Her body was later found in a
kitchen of a flat on the 8th floor of an under-construction building at 8pm,
with a rope tied to her neck.
It was later found that the little girl was first brutally raped and
killed by Harun and then the killer dragged her lifeless body to the kitchen
of that flat by tying a rope to her neck and fled the scene.
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