Dhaka, March 19 -- A tribunal has sentenced a tutor to death for raping a 7-year-old girl in Dhaka's Banasree in 2021.

Judge Rukshana Begum of Dhaka's Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 delivered the verdict on Wednesday.

The capital punishment recipient, Zahidul Islam, was also fined Tk 50,000, failure to pay which will result in an additional six months of rigorous imprisonment.

Expressing satisfaction with the verdict, Public Prosecutor Md Sajjad Hossain said: "There should be no leniency for rapists. They should all receive exemplary punishment so that no one dares to commit such an offence in the future."

Defence lawyer Imran Hossain, however, said an appeal against the verdict would be filed at the High Court. "...