A court in Khulna on Tuesday sentenced six accused to death in a gang-rape case.
Khulna Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 Judge AH Salam Khan pronounced the verdict, said public prosecutor Farid Ahmed.
The court, at the same time, fined the convicts Tk 20,000.
The convicts are Morshedul Islam Shanto alias Shanto Biswas, Sheikh Shahdat Hossain, Rabbi Hasan Parash, Mahmud Hasan Akash, Kazi Ariful Islam Pritom and Md Mim Biswas.
According to the prosecutor, convict Shanto Biswas took a school student of Class VI, to a rented house in Dalmil intersection in Khulna city on June 29, 2019. There he along with others raped the girl.
The victim's elder sister filed a case next day with Sonadanga Police Station.
