Dhaka, June 18 -- A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka's South Keraniganj four years ago.

Judge Munshi Md Moshiar Rahman of the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict in the case on Wednesday.

The court also fined the convict Motahar, identified with a single name, Tk 100,000.

State lawyer Ershad Alam George said, "The Dhaka district magistrate has been instructed to sell the suspect's liquid and non-liquid assets and pay the fine to the victim."

Motahar was brought before the tribunal before the verdict. Afterwards, a warrant was issued against him and he was then taken to prison.

Motahar originally came from Kurahar village in Bogura's Shibganj....