, Feb. 5 -- A Noakhali court on Monday sentenced ten people to death and six others to life imprisonment in a case over gang rape of a woman on the day of the national election in 2018.

Fatema Ferdous, Judge of the Noakhali Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, handed down the punishment.

The condemned convicts are-Md Sohel, 38, Md Hanif, 30, Swapan, 42, Md Chowdhury, 25, Ibrahim Khalil Bechu, 25, Badsha Alam Basu, 40, Ruhul Amin, 45, Abul Hossain Abu, 40, Mosharraf, 35 and Md Salauddin, 32.

The lifers are-- Jashim Uddin, 32, Hasan Ali Bulu, 45, Md Murad, 28, Md Jamal alias Henju Majhi, 28 and Sohel, 28 and Mintu alias Helal, 28. Of them, Helal was tried in absentia.

According to the prosecution, the convicts raped a 40-ye...