Sylhet, July 2 -- A Sylhet court on Wednesday sentenced two youths to death for raping a 14-year-old girl in 2012.

Judge Begum Rubaiya Yeasmin of the Sylhet Children Violence Suppression Tribunal handed down the verdict.

The convicts are Joynal, 25, son of Md Ashik Ali of Shahbazpur area under Bishwanath upazila, and Nazim Uddin, 25, son of Md. Moinuddin of Kandirgaon area in the same upazila.

Advocate Nur Ahmed, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) of the Sylhet Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, confirmed the matter.

According to the prosecution, in the afternoon of November 27, 2012, Joynal lured the victim into a house while she was on her way to her maternal grandfather's house. Nazim Uddin was already waiting insid...