The court also sentenced the rapist to life term rigorous imprisonment and fined him Tk1 lakh
The court recognized the paternal identity of a child of a speech-impaired woman, who was impregnated after being raped 12 years ago. The child was born in village Hariram of Pirgachha Upazila in the district on Sunday.
The court also sentenced the rapist to life term rigorous imprisonment and fined him Tk1 lakh and declared the infant boy as the heir of the rapist, ordering him to provide necessary alimony for his up-bringing.
If the rapist has no property, the court instructed the state to bear the necessary cost of the child.
Md Rokunuzzaman, judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 of Rangpur, handed down the epoch-making verdict in the courtroom in presence of the convict on Sunday afternoon.
The prosecution says the convict is Abul Kalam, (then 35 years old), son of Abdul Jalil of village Harirampur in Pirgachha Upazila, frequently sexually harassed the speech-impaired young girl (then 18 years old) of the same village till 2008.
When he was forbidden, Kalam got angry and raped the disabled girl in the afternoon of December 1, 2008.
The matter came into light when the girl’s physical changes began to show some time after of the rape.
When the girl was asked, she identified Abul Kalam in gesture and informed her family members about the rape.
She was admitted to Pirgachha Upazila Health Complex on September 9, 2009, when she became seriously sick after giving birth to the baby.
The girl’s father later filed a case against Abul Kalam in court on September 16, 2009, after the rapist refused to admit the rape and recognize his newborn child.
The court ordered Pirgachha Police Station to accept the case as an FIR and submit an investigation report.
Abdus Samad Sarkar, the then Sub-Inspector (SP) of Pirgachha Police Station and Investigating Officer of the case, submitted a charge sheet against the accused person on December 25, 2009, after conducting an investigation.
After examining reports of the DNA tests of the child and rapist and nine witnesses during the long hearing period of the case, the court found the accused guilty and announced the verdict against him on Sunday.
Special Public Prosecutor of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 of Rangpur Advocate Jahangir Hossain Tuhin stood for the state while Senior Advocate Emdadul Haque defended the accused side.
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