Couple gets death penalty for trafficking girl
Khulna Correspondent: Dhaka, May-18,
A court here today sentenced the husband and wife to death on the charge of trafficking a 17-year-old girl in India in 2009.
Judge of Women and Child Repression Prevention Trial Tribunal-3 Abdus Salam Khan handed down the verdict.
Public Prosecutor (PP) advocate Md Farid Ahmed said convicts Shaheen Sheikh and his wife Asma Begum trafficked the girl luring her and providing her a good job in India. But they sold her to a brothel on October 19, 2009.
The victim filed a case against the couple after returning to Bangladesh, the PP said, adding since then they were at large.
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