A Tangail court has sentenced four people to death and another to seven years in prison over the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa.
Tangail Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Abul Mansur Miah announced the verdict on Monday.
Chhowa Paribahan bus driver Habibur, 45, and his helpers Shamim, 26, Akram, 35, and Jahangir, 19, were sentenced to death.
Chhowa Paribahan Supervisor Safar Ali, 55, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Rupa’s body was found on August 25 last year beside the Tangail-Myemnsingh Highway in Modhupur Upazila.
She studied at Ideal Law College in Dhaka and had been working in the marketing division of a company. Her area of coverage was Mymensingh Sadar.
She was on the way to her workplace after taking the teachers' registration test in Bogra on that day.
According to the case dossier, she was gang-raped and then brutally killed on a moving bus of Chhowa Paribahan, reports bdnews24.
The trial began on January 31. Arguments ended on February 5 and the judge set this day for the verdict.
