Bangladesh, July 14 -- A court has sentenced one man to death and handed life imprisonment to three others in a case over the gang rape of a housewife at the hostel of MC College in Sylhet.

Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Swapan Kumar Sarkar delivered the verdict on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of the accused, Public Prosecutor Abul Hossain said.

The verdict comes nearly six years after the assault at the college hostel.

The court sentenced the case's prime suspect, Saifur Rahman, 28, to death.

Mahbubur Rahman Rony, 25, Tarekul Islam Tarek, 28, and Arjun Laskar, 26, were each sentenced to life imprisonment.

The tribunal also fined each of them Tk 100,000.

It acquitted four other suspects: Robiul Islam, 25, Mahfuz...