Dhaka, June 4 -- A Chattogram court has sentenced a madrasa teacher to jail until death for raping six children in a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Act.

Judge Ferdous Ara of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Chattogram delivered the verdict on Wednesday.

The convict, 41-year-old Nazim Uddin, was a resident of Fatikchhari's East Dhurong Babuganj. Alongside the jail sentence, he has been handed a fine of Tk 500,000.

Nazim was working as a director and teacher at the Rahmania Tahfizul Quran Academy next to the Makkah Hotel in Panchlaish during the incident.

Tribunal bench assistant Kafil Uddin said, "The court has jailed Nazim Uddin until death and imposed a Tk 500,000 fine after f...