The hearing in law student Jakia Sultana Rupa’s rape and murder case has finished with the court setting February 12 for delivering the verdict. Rupa was gang-raped aboard a moving bus of ‘Chhoa Paribahan’ and murdered when travelling to Mymensingh from Bogra on August 25 last year. Also Read- 5 indicted in Rupa murder casePolice filed a murder case at Modhupur station accusing five people on August 26 and arrested bus driver Habibur, supervisor Safar Ali, and assistants Shamim, Akram and Jahangir two days later. Twenty-seven out of 32 witnesses testified before the court in the case. After completion of the hearing, the tribunal fixed the date for delivering the verdict on Monday.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 05, 2018 09:56 UTC