Naogaon, Aug. 24 -- A court in Naogaon on Sunday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a seventh-grade madrasa student over three years back.

Judge of Naogaon Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Mehedi Hasan Talukdar also fined the convict Tk 1 lakh, otherwise he will have to serve six more months in jail.

The convict is Abdus Salam, 38, a resident of Borsail Madhyapara village in Naogaon Sadar upazila.

According to the case statement, the victim's family had been living in a rented house in Patnitala upazila of the district. Salam was a neighbour of the victim and ran a scrap business.

He used to offer illicit proposal to the victim on her way to and from madrasa.

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