One walk to gallows for killing 6-year old girl

Court Correspondent :
A tribunal of Dhaka yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his six-year-old cousin after raping her in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area in April, 2011.
Judge Begum Shamsunnahar of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of the convict at the courtroom on Sunday.
The court also sentenced the convict to life in the prison for kidnapping the victim. Death sentence will be executed subject to confirmation of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, the court said in her judgment.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defense completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 10 prosecution witnesses, including the complainant of the case.