Dhaka, April 9 -- A Dhaka court has sentenced five people to imprisonment until death and two minors to 10 years in prison for "maiming" a 7-year-old child in order to "force them into beggary" in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar area in 2010.

Judge Munshi Md Moshiar Rahman of the Dhaka's Women and Children's Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict on Thursday.

Salahuddin, Shariful Islam alias Korban Mia, Khandaker Omar Faruk, Md Ramzan and Saddam were sentenced to imprisonment until death.

The same judge also tried the defendants under the age of 18.

The court's bench assistant Rashedul Islam said each of the five defendants sentenced to imprisonment until death has been fined Tk 500,000, with one year in prison if in default of pa...