Rakib murder: Full text HC verdict released
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Staff Correspondent: The full text verdict of the High Court (HC) in the case of Khulna's much-talked Rakib murder has been released.
The verdict was published on Wednesday after Justice Md Zahngir Hossain Selim and Justice Md Zahangir Hossain signed in it.
On April 4, the HC bench commuted the death sentence of two convicts--Mintu Khan and Omar Sharif-- to life imprisonment for killing 13-year-old Rakib by blowing air through his rectum back in 2015.
The court also fined them Tk 50,000 and set two-year additional imprisonment term for fine default.
On November 8 in 2015, a Khulna court handed down death penalty to prime accused Sharif and Mintu in the murder case.
The convicts then filed two separate appeals with the HC challenging their conviction handed down by the trial court.
On August 3 of the same year, Rakib's former employer Sharif and Mintu stripped the boy naked, inserted a high-pressure air pump nozzle into his rectum and filled the abdomen with air, as a punishment for changing workplace.
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