Netrokona, Nov. 11 -- A Netrokona court on Wednesday sentenced a local madrasah teacher to death for raping an 11-year-old girl in Madan upazila of Netrokona district, whereby she became pregnant.

Netrokona District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Abdus Salam handed down the punishment.

The convict is Aman Ullah Mahmudi alias Sagar.

The court also fined him Tk 1 lakh and directed the state to bear all expenses for upbringing, education and medical treatment of the child born following the rape until she gets married.

It further directed that the child be identified by both her father's and mother's names in all state and institutional records. The court also ordered that the expenses incurred for her be recovered from the convict's proper...